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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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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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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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 gotta take notes when things occur to me.
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So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future.
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Some readers and commentators really want to scrape your insides out to make sense of your work. Others say, there's the work, it speaks for itself. Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle.
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The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.
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When I was younger, there were moments where I said, 'I'm not going to have children.' And then moments when I wanted four. And now I definitely want another, but I don't know when.
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I would say divorce, breaking up, being a child of divorce, any of those things are always very challenging.
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My chest of books divide amongst my friends.
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Unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.
