Emily James Smith Putnam Quotes
Every discussion of the status of woman is complicated by the existence of the lady. She overshadows the rest of her sex.
Emily James Smith Putnam
Quotes to Explore
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Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system.
Wendy Davis
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'The Bone Season' is violent. There's sex. My little brother keeps asking to read it, and he's 9, so I'm like, 'No, it's not happening.'
Samantha Shannon
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Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
Fran Lebowitz
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Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision.
Harri Holkeri
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In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.
Victoria Wood
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There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these are books for adults. Actually, they're just stories, and if they're good stories, then they surpass those boundaries.
L.A. Weatherly
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Technological revolutions are very hard to predict. My favourite example is someone in 1850 taking care of horses as a farrier. They would have said, "Look, horses have been part of human existence for 5,000 years. We are horse people. It's permanent." But all of a sudden, the internal combustion engine comes along and, with it, oil fields and automobiles, which basically replace the horse completely. So we often have these long periods of stability and then a sudden inflection point.
Reed Hastings
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For some the wind can fleshly blow, for some the sunlight fade at ease, but we, made partners in our dread, hear but the grating of the keys, and heavy-booted soldiers' tread. As if for early mass, we rose and each day walked the wilderness, trudging through silent street and square, to congregate, less live than dead.
Anna Akhmatova
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Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.
Kenny Rogers
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I always felt too young and selfish to have children of my own.
Natasha Richardson
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'Why is everyone here so happy except me?' 'Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere,' said the Master. 'Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?' 'Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.'
Anthony de Mello
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Every discussion of the status of woman is complicated by the existence of the lady. She overshadows the rest of her sex.
Emily James Smith Putnam
