Family Quotes
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I know a few women younger than me who have careers and children, and so the burgeoning career and family happen at the same time. A few have said something like, "During dating, he was all about feminism. But now I have to ask him to help with the children, I have to ask him to do the dishes, and every time he does, it's like a favor. Where's the feminist I married?" That's theoretical feminism, not practical feminism. I don't think we're all where we need to be. I don't know if we will be in my lifetime. Life is imperfect. But interesting.
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I think we have lost sight of something of importance, something which has always been at the heart of Conservatism which is the family - functioning as a family unit with legal rights and responsibilities and being able to make its choices and let its children grow strong.
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You get lonely, but I’m a loner. I need friends, I need people, but I’m essentially a loner person as far as big family commitments go.
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In my family, only my brother has a similar skin color. But in Senegal, the color is common.
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Luckily for me I have a very supportive family and a loving group of friends.
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What I want in my career is different to what I wanted when I was 21. It's got to be something that keeps my family together, that allows me to be present in their lives.
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Never make any reference to the other person's family. "You're just like your - " because that is out, completely.
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The closest thing to religion our family had was worshipping The Beatles.
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I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people.
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Mo: I miss the good old days. Smash the family! Smash the state!Sydney: What about Clarice and Toni and Raffi? D'you want to smash their family?Mo: Please, Sydney. I'm expressing an ideological conviction, not talking about real people.
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When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
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I've spent half my life on planes. I have a lot of love for New Zealand, though. That is where the really arty, whimsical side of the family resided - in Hobbitland.
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My family is part Creole, and were Indian, and were also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.
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I am a very approachable and personable person, and I always put myself last. Whether it's family or friends, I always think about them first.
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Whether you work with your family or someone from outside, you can't take the audience for granted.
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I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.
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I was brought up in a kind of, you know, very hippie, liberal family. And it was just always automatically assumed that men and women were equal and indeed superior.
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At work you worry over the family at home. At home you fret over work left undone. Behold the working woman's stress.
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All my kids have worked in the family business. I've been successful at that. My family knows how to work. We all started working very young.
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We packed up all the worldly possessions we could carry with us and took the next flight to Hawaii from Washington. It took just about every cent my family had to our name just to pay the plane fare. When we arrived, we had about $15 left among us. We were really in pitiful shape. But we were together, and we were alive, and this was all that mattered.
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I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany.
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A girl child who is even a little bit educated is more conscious of family planning, health care and, in turn, her children's own education.
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That's why I loved being with you. We could do the simplest things, like toss starfish into the ocean and share a burger and talk and even then I knew that I was fortunate. Because you were the first guy who wasn't constantly trying to impress me. You accepted who you were, but more than that, you accepted me for me. And nothing else mattered-- not my family or your family or anyone else in the world. It was just us.
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Physically, women have some challenges in the kitchen, like lifting heavy pots on and off the stove. You learn to adapt; you learn to find a way. But the biggest challenge for women in this industry is how to balance a family with such a demanding career.
