Katha Pollitt Quotes
Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.
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I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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I enjoy music so much; it's such a passion in my life, and I hope that comes across.
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I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection.
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There was a whole slew of 'Cops and Robbersons,' just films that didn't measure up, that didn't stand for anything comedically. They were purely for a paycheck.
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I actually watched 'Lord of the Rings' right when it came out, so maybe 2001 or 2002 or whenever that was. But I watched those movies, and I ended up loving them so much that I found every behind-the-scenes feature and every sort of 'making-of' clip they had.
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Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief. I regard the present conservation movement as the embryo of such an affirmation.
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Love always makes those eloquent that have it.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
