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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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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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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He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.
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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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Bind up their wounds - but look the other way.
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I often have trouble falling asleep at night, so when I'm lying in bed I think up stories. That's where I do a lot of my thinking. I also get a lot of ideas while I'm reading - sometimes reading someone else's stories will make me think of one of my own.
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Towns and cities throughout the United States have opened their hearts and homes to thousands of families displaced from their homes as a result of this horrific storm.
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Now at last I can look at you in peace, I don't eat you anymore.
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Most people in Uganda have something good to say about Amin - 'He was funny; he gave us pride to be African.'
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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.
