Stephanie Coontz Quotes

As soon as love became the driving force behind marriage, people began to demand the right to remain single if they had not found love or to divorce if they fell out of love.

Stephanie Coontz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveMarriagePeopleDrivingDivorce

I hate staying in resorts. When I go on holiday, I like to stay in crappy places with great surf.

Jesse Spencer

GreatHateHolidayGoPlacesStay

You cannot force a child to use their limbs if they're in pain.

Jesse White

PainChildYouForceCannotUse

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

John le Carre

WarColdEasyGreyShadesCold War

You test yourself. That's what real fighters do.

Max Holloway

YourselfYouTestRealFighters

I really want to see good health care brought to all the people of Alabama at a reasonable cost.

Robert J. Bentley

GoodGood HealthHealthPeopleCare

I'm glad that in this sport you can write your own stories, and you don't have to worry about what other people expect out of you.

Robbie Lawler

PeopleWorryYouWriteOutOwn

Greek myths, early Roman history, is configured around violence against women. And I think we need to get in there, get our hands dirty, face it, and see why and how it was.

Mary Beard

WomenHistoryFaceThinkHandsWhy

I guess I knew I was a people person, but I didn't know how much till I had a podcast.

Janet Varney

PeoplePersonKnowKnewMuchHow

You've got to be able to sell yourself.

Don Rickles

YourselfYouGotSellAble

In the past, great communicators were great orators, but great communicators today sound conversational, and interrupting is common in conversation. And public discourse is now more about entertainment than enlightenment.

Deborah Tannen

TodayGreatPastEnlightenmentNow

Indian standards of artistry, and Indian standards of humanity, and Indian standards of love, and of family, devotion, commitment, stand for me as the standard for how one should behave.

Clark Blaise

FamilyLoveCommitmentMeStandHow

I think over there in Montreal they're a bit hardcore with the old homos. They're not that keen on them.

Allan Carr

ThinkOldOverMontrealI ThinkBit

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