Stephanie Coontz Quotes

For a century, women have binged on romance novels that encouraged them to associate intimidation with infatuation; it's no wonder that this emotional hangover still lingers.

Stephanie Coontz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 31, 1944

Topics

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The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I don't know the time frame exactly, but it's clear they're all going to want to start spending money again.

Andrew Gould

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In the cases that come before the Department of Justice involving a wide range of unlawful activities, we see repeated evidence of family and community failures.

Robert Kennedy

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People don't realize that being eco-friendly doesn't require radical changes. It's not an all-or-nothing thing. Really, it's about very simple, little changes you can make. You can still be into fashion, care about what your skin looks like, or think about what bag you're going to carry that day. You just learn to incorporate better choices.

Su-chin Pak

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It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control: the inability to relinquish high self-reflexive consciousness for the vulnerable, ignorant regions of slumber in which we know not what we do.

Siri Hustvedt

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When I am writing, my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.

Roger Ebert

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What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.

Lucy Powell

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The office building is a building for work, organization, lucidity and economy. Light, spacious working rooms, clearly arranged, undivided, only organized according to the pattern of the firm.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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I didn't open a restaurant, but I did go to a few cooking schools. It was too much like hard work!

Christine McVie

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No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

Plutarch

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Just as the PC bled back into industrial economy, I think the Internet is going to bleed back into our overall economy and have a transformative effect on major sectors that we don't yet foresee.

Tim O'Reilly

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The Ricky that the public see, whether it be on screen as a character, in public, or on social media, is very outgoing, and I'm a bit of a class clown. Then those who are closest to me know that I can be very sensitive. I can be quite insecure about myself.

Ricky Whittle

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