Betty Rollin Quotes

Unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.

Betty Rollin

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• 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.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Justice
  • Jesus
  • Poverty

• My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.

  

  S. T. Joshi
  • Age
  • Father
  • Religion

• Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Present
  • Violence
  • Destiny

• The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.

  

  Kate Capshaw
  • Nature
  • Story
  • Lovers

• Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Power
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Used
  • Prosperity
  • Instrument

• 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.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Art

• 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.

  

  Viet D. Dinh
  • Opportunity
  • Innovation
  • Collaboration

• 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.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • You
  • Smart
  • Little

• 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.

  

  Faith Ford
  • Time
  • She
  • Kids

• The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Happy
  • Happiness
  • Determination

• Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Never
  • Moment
  • New York

• 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.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Money
  • Experience

• For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Environment
  • Player
  • Consequences

• When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • People
  • Hate
  • Religion

• You can never have too many black pumps. Never!

  

  Andre Leon Talley
  • Black

• You want your children to love the nanny, but at the same time, you want to stay the mother, and you want to be the most-loved. So there is a sort of jealousy between the mother and the nanny.

  

  Leila Slimani
  • Time
  • Children
  • Mother

• I think white women need to wake up and say, 'Not all women are white,' three times in front of the mirror.

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Up
  • Women
  • Mirror

• You can be in love and raise a family wonderfully by not being married, but actually, marriage does give us a strength, because it's quite hard to get out of, and so it makes us fight more to keep it together. If divorce becomes dead easy - which it sort of has - then we don't have that backup. Because, for everybody, relationships are hard.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • Family
  • Together
  • Marriage

• I've done a lot of Super Bowls and appeared in a lot of big, big events and places and the Masters and what have you, but there was nothing as intimidating as speaking with Billy Graham.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Done
  • You
  • Nothing

• Unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.

  

  Betty Rollin
  • Marriage
  • Divorce
  • Motherhood