Stephanie Coontz Quotes

Whatever their relative valuation of the single and married states, most societies in history made sharp distinctions between those who married and those who remained single: They were seen as mutually exclusive ways of life, with different legal rights and social obligations.

Stephanie Coontz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeHistoryLegalSingleWhatever

I worked with a lot of leading ladies: Bebe Neuwirth, Anne Rankin, Bernadette Peters, Liza Minnelli. They're all phenomenal talents.

Joel Grey

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I care about making New York better.

John Catsimatidis

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I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.

Stokely Carmichael

PeopleBlackWhiteCountryRights

The great thing about getting married young like I did and having a child so young is that he gets to know all the relatives. He knew his great-grandmother, and we sat down together and tied down the stories of our uncles and aunts. They were quite the characters, and we tied them to about 50 recipes. It's like a memoir-cookbook.

Tony Danza

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My father had several strokes and heart attacks. I was with him when he died, and it was a horrible death. He had been a very articulate man, and to lose that, never to be able to speak properly and to be unable to move - he had always been a very vigorous man, so to be in a wheelchair and mumbling - was terrible.

Ruth Rendell

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Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I'm no different. It's just human nature.

Michelle Pfeiffer

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There was really quite a remarkable level of sexism on newspapers when I started.

Molly Ivins

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There's probably more in the American tradition than people give the place credit for.

Donald Judd

PeopleAmericanTraditionCredit

There's a fine line between artist and product. I don't think the industry purposely does it, but I think that's just the way they maneuver. You have to be careful that doesn't become your story, where you become a product, and your art is tarnished because you're just seen as a tool to make money.

Dawn Richard

ArtMoneyStoryThinkYouArtist

I love Europe even though I'm based in the U.S.

Chiara Ferragni

LoveEuropeEvenThoughBased

When I start a new novel and find myself diverted by domestic activities, many of which I genuinely enjoy, I panic that I will never write another word.

Christina Baker Kline

MyselfStartEnjoyFindNewNever

I went through a lot of pretty intense struggles in my life, through my head injury, whether it was mental or psychological.

Brady Jandreau

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