Karen Abbott Quotes

In the sudden absence of husbands, fathers, brothers and beaus, white Southern women discovered a newfound freedom - one that simultaneously granted them more power in relationships and increased their likelihood of heartbreak.

Karen Abbott

• Women
• Power
• Freedom
• Heartbreak

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• I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Like
  • Body
  • Dress

• Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.

  

  K. Flay
  • Something
  • Rich
  • Hip Hop

• I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Me
  • City
  • Write

• I think there's a difference when you make fun of yourself and your own behavior, and when you dishonor or disrespect Christ. If you're making a mockery of Christ is one thing. But if you're just joking about human foibles and weaknesses, I think that's perfectly acceptable.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Disrespect

• One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Important
  • Done
  • Service

• The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Easy
  • Rights
  • Civil Rights

• I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Rather

• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • You
  • White

• A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • School
  • America
  • Change

• Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Yoga
  • Union
  • Dimensions

• Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Time
  • Great
  • Heart

• You have to find something that you want to accomplish, that you want to achieve. You want to drop 15 pounds. You want to be able to run four miles. There has to be some goal that you set for yourself and, after you've reached that goal, you set a new one. You always have to be shooting for something, striving for something.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Want
  • Goal
  • Yourself

• I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Hate
  • Wife
  • Daughter

• Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Without
  • Complexity

• I always watch superhero movies, and I like the action and the fighting and all the different kinds of powers.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Different
  • Action
  • Fighting

• A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • People
  • Good
  • Writing

• It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Women
  • Myself
  • Rock

• Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Career
  • Acting
  • Aesthetic

• Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Men
  • Power
  • Poor

• Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Up
  • Women

• You can't allow people freedom and then change your mind when the things don't go your way.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • People
  • Mind
  • Freedom

• Out of the best and most productive years of each man's life, he should carve a segment in which he puts his private career aside to serve his community and his country, and thereby serve his children, his neighbours, his fellow men, and the cause of freedom.

  

  David Lilienthal
  • Country
  • Children
  • Freedom

• In the sudden absence of husbands, fathers, brothers and beaus, white Southern women discovered a newfound freedom - one that simultaneously granted them more power in relationships and increased their likelihood of heartbreak.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Women
  • Power
  • Freedom