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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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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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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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
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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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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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If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.
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I want to bring more manufacturing jobs to America. For starters, I want to be behind the initative to build a manufacturing facility in Atlanta.
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Sometimes it's a character you want to play or a story you want to tell. Sometimes it's just to pay the bills.
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The food business is very tough, but there's also a lot of love and very giving.
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I used to be on the Lincoln City Council. You learn that there's never enough money for all of the police officers and fire-fighting apparatus you'd like to have.
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I don't feel that normal anymore because I get recognised, even when I'm just trying to have fun or going to get ice cream with my friends.
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My vision and my creative ability is just so broad.
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I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
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Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom.
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Too often she had seen the first indignation of disappointed parents at the marriage of the their children harden into a matter of pride, a matter of doggedness and principle, and finally become ridiculous. If the marriages turned out happy, how absurd to persist in an antiquated disapproval; if they turned out wretched, then how urgent the special need for love.
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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.
