Katha Pollitt Quotes

I put out a call on Twitter and Facebook and email for women to tell me their stories about their abortions. And many women said, 'I told my boyfriend I was pregnant, and that was the last I ever heard of them.'

Katha Pollitt

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Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.

Dan Aykroyd
- Me
- Down
- Refuse
I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.

Xavier Niel
- American
- Said
- Once
People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.

Karl Lagerfeld
- People
- Think
- Hate
Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.

Barbara Deming
- Doubt
- Said
- Try
For the first two weeks of filming, I remember bristling at some of the occurrences on the set, none of which directly involved me. Then I surrendered to the environment, to Michael's method, and became much happier, even though no one knew what to expect.

Madeleine Stowe
- Remember
- Me
- Environment
I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.

E. L. Doctorow
- Way
- Me
- Writer