Betty Rollin Quotes
Unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S. Senate has a similar opportunity to restore our patent regime to its rightful position of protecting inventors' property rights and spurring innovation. These are values that all Americans should rally behind.
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Every time I work on a new set, I take whatever I can from it and learn as much as I can around the people who I am working with.
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If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.
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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 secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
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Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.
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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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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.
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I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
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And the Court's decision in this was that there was a zone of privacy that was created around the marriage relationship, and that zone of privacy came out of a number of different places in the Constitution.
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The attacks in Jordan, just like those before it in Indonesia, Egypt, Spain and the United States, demonstrate that terrorism does not discriminate by race, ethnicity or region. Instead, terrorists indiscriminately target those seeking to live a peaceful, loving and free life.
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choosing his scenes by: ..night vigils at the back window.
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Unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.
