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?
Quotes to Explore
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'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
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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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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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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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There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.
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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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The older generations are too wedded to political parties, too wedded to romantic memories of what education was like when they were kids, and too wedded to the status quo group that clings to power.
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If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.
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Instead of this fruitless debate about having it all, men and women should focus on what make us happy. Instead of comparing our lives with people we don't know who are making sacrifices we don't see, we should try to find the right balance between home and work life.
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I started caddying when I was nine years old at a very exclusive country club in Dayton, Ohio. And I saw how the other half lived, if you will.
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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?
