Stephanie Coontz Quotes

Unilateral divorce has decreased the bargaining power of the person who wants the marriage to last and has not engaged in behavior that meets the legal definition of fault. On the other hand, it has increased the bargaining power of the person who is willing to leave.

Stephanie Coontz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MarriagePowerLegalBehaviorPerson

If you want to be in the world I live in, which is a creative world with new ideas, then you've got to get away from the norm. You've got to go for it.

Jerry Weintraub

LiveCreativeIdeasWorldYouNew

Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable.

Jessica Lange

HellDoingYouKnowSometimesActor

Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.

Robert Smith

PeopleMeLookNobodyComingLike

Though pigs have been proven susceptible to a porcine spongiform encephalopathy, the National Pork Producers Council claims that no naturally occurring cases of 'mad pig' disease have ever been discovered.

Michael Greger

MadPigPigsPorkBeenDisease

The skills you acquire can always be effectively redeployed. You will look back on setbacks and be grateful for the catalyst that came not a moment too soon.

Tom Freston

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My decision to leave applied mathematics for economics was in part tied to the widely-held popular belief in the 1960s that macroeconomics had made fundamental inroads into controlling business cycles and stopping dysfunctional unemployment and inflation.

Robert C. Merton

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I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship.

Rose Schneiderman

GoodPoorTalkTraitorHereWould

Twitter can be incredibly valuable as an open communications mechanism, but if you close too many things down too quickly, if you think about it too short-sightedly, you could easily do a lot of damage to that ecosystem.

Mike McCue

ThinkYouDownOpenThingsValuable

I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble.

Michael Palin

GreatPeopleWorldReputationYou

I never go to these showbiz parties. I avoid them with a 10-inch pole.

Chris O'Dowd

GoNeverAvoidShowbizPoleThem

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

Paulo Coelho

LoveWomenTimeMenSocietyAccept

I loved entertainment and acting, performing. I just liked the stage and having the spotlight and stuff.

Shawn Mendes

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