Alison Lurie Quotes
Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian custom of loading women's legs with pounds of heavy brass wire are extreme examples, but all over the world similar stratagems have been employed to make sure that once you have caught a woman she cannot run away, and even if she stays around she cannot keep up with you. ... Literally as well as figuratively modern women's shoes are what keeps Samantha from running as fast as Sammy.
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I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.
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We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich.
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I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
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In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.
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Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.
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I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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If I wasn't an actress, I'd never wear make up. I liked being ready in half an hour and arrive on the sets. Even for a no-makeup look, if one has a dark under-eye on a particular day, a little makeup is used. I had no scope for that as well.
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Sometimes women who are taller aren't comfortable with it, but I love being tall.
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When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.
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There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.
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The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
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Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.
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When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.
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Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.
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In medical school, it's quite possible to get taught that you can diagnose everybody and treat everything. But then you get out in the real world and find that for most patients walking through your door, you have no idea what's causing their symptoms.
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Staffing branches with tellers can be considered a premium service in a world where fewer customers visit bank branches for transactions.
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Basically, we all just had to live in the Trump reality television show, and now we're kind of stuck there for at least four years. Maybe eight.
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I am very amazed by the runners out there because I like jog to the garbage can outside sometimes, and I get tired.
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The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.
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Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian custom of loading women's legs with pounds of heavy brass wire are extreme examples, but all over the world similar stratagems have been employed to make sure that once you have caught a woman she cannot run away, and even if she stays around she cannot keep up with you. ... Literally as well as figuratively modern women's shoes are what keeps Samantha from running as fast as Sammy.
