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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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
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If somebody came up with a really good idea, everyone would back it. Especially when we did the show, we had a real dedication that, if you were in somebody else's scene, everyone worked their hardest to make that scene good.
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So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.
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It's easy to just write about love, because everyone can relate, but I like variety.
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Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer 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.
