Estelle Freedman Quotes
We will ask two central questions throughout this course: 1. What difference does gender make? 2. For which women does it make a difference? Which women?
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My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work.
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
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If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.
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If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.
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You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.
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My job in 'Motive' is to be the rebellious teenager - what boy wouldn't want to be that?
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Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.
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Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.
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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
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When we were in Sweden, there was a fan that hid in a bin. I think one of the security guards saw and tried to take her out, and she went a bit crazy and started tackling them.
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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
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I'm such a huge 'Arrested Development' fan.
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I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way.
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I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.
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A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.
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The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information.
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After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.
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One of the nicest things about NBC is that Tom Brokaw is not Dan Rather.
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The problem of sexism is getting better, but I don't know if it's getting better fast enough. We see more roles for women that don't entirely revolve around the way in which they function in a man's life, but typically those women are almost always white, and even then, there are only a few of them.
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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
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In the absence of full-fledged Congressional investigations, American policymakers rarely look back. They are bound by continuity and fealty across administrations and generations.
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We will ask two central questions throughout this course: 1. What difference does gender make? 2. For which women does it make a difference? Which women?
