Rebecca Traister Quotes
Since the late 19th century, the median age of first marriage for women had fluctuated between 20 and 22. This had been the shape, pattern and definition of female life.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.
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World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable - continue to suffer.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.
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If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.
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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
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I have a friend that has five kids and she went through a trial separation with her husband, and she didn't have time to be upset. Every now and then, she'd call me on the cell phone and just cry.
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The less you do to beautiful food, the better it's going to taste. You don't need to mess with it all the time.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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I could list hundreds of words I've come up against in the course of my work that did not exist in the era of which I was writing and for which I never could find a suitably old-time, archaic or obsolete substitute.
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Because America is a democracy, public support for presidential foreign-policy decisions is essential.
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On the sets, Ali Zafar was extremely entertaining... he would just start singing out of the blue. It was just great!
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Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.
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I don't question God.
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I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.
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It is sufficient for you that the one who envies you is distressed at the time of your joy.
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I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.
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To succeed as a contrarian you must recognize what the crowd believes, have concrete justification for why the majority is wrong, and have the patience and conviction to stick with what is, by definition, an unpopular bet.
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Since the late 19th century, the median age of first marriage for women had fluctuated between 20 and 22. This had been the shape, pattern and definition of female life.
