Cokie Roberts Quotes
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Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.
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Women rely on friends. ... That's where we draw sustenance and find safety. We can count on our women friends when we need a good laugh or a good cry.
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They thought we were a bunch of self-satisfying, materialistic, selfish people who would crumble. We knew that's not who we were.
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But, the truth is and we can argue about whether this is right or not as long as we want to, but the fact is that women really do spend more time with their families. Until I can find a man who can tell me the dates of all of his nieces and nephews birthdays and get presents out to them regularly, I'm going to stay by that statement.
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There's a view in this country that everybody's going through what they're going through for the first time.
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Martha Washington. I think she's done herself a disservice in history with a little cap, you know? She looks like a namby-pamby little grandmotherly type, but she turned out to be a very strong woman.
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We were told we should not pay any attention to John Roberts views and religion and now we are told that opinions and religion do matter. I believe there is a degree of sexism here. . .and ivy league prejudice going on here.
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No matter what else they're doing, women are also always nurturing.
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Times do keep changing - thank God.
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The truth is, the notion that gay marriage is harmful to marriage, is sort of mind-boggling, because these are people trying to get married. But it seems to me, if you want to defend marriage against something, defend it against divorce.
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He's always hoped I would have one. I never have.
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There is such pleasure in long-term marriage that I really would hate to be my age and not have had a long-term marriage. Remember, sustaining a pleasurable, long-term marriage takes effort, deliberateness and an intention to learn about one another. In other words, marriage is for grown-ups.
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As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.
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You have to pay attention to who you are. You need to know your family history as well as you can. It is important for young women to have preventive care. If you catch any women's cancers early it's the difference between life and death. Do you really want to leave your kids without a mother?
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Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood.
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I think it's a good thing to have a lot of voices in the media, and I think, you know, let all flowers bloom.
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I mean it's - it is hard to find a voice on talk radio that is not a conservative voice.
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I always wanted children, but not until they were actually part of my life did I realize that I could love that fiercely, or get that angry.
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I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong.
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People came through. They all came together, they didn't worry about ratings, the stuff we spend way to much time worrying about. They became a community.
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You know, others keep saying that there are too many candidates in the race, and once it gets down to a two-person race that Trump can't get above that 30 to 35 percent that he's gotten both in the polling and in the elections and that the others will start pulling out that 65 the 70 percent not voting for Tromp. But there's absolutely no evidence that all of that vote will go to another candidate.