Stephanie Coontz Quotes

Unemployment, low wages, and poverty discourage family formation and erode family stability, making it less likely that individuals will marry in the first place and more likely that their marriages will dissolve.

Stephanie Coontz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FamilyPovertyPlaceWillFirstLow

When I first travelled to New York in 1982 on a summer holiday as a student, I remember thinking how exciting it was, how energising it felt, and also how it felt dangerous - it was a place where you could make a wrong turn, either geographically or just in a human interaction, and suddenly find yourself in trouble.

John Lanchester

YourselfNew YorkThinkingRemember

There are always things you wish you could've done better, and there are always things that you wish would've turned out a different way in terms of storyline, which you're not in charge of.

Robert Kazinsky

BetterWishYouDoneWayOut

I do like playing the darker side of life but as much as the lighter side as well. They all resonate out of the same place, which is that everyone has a story to tell. Depending on their upbringing and their history, it determines who they are as an adult. My job is to take the role from there.

Michael Eklund

LifeHistoryJobStoryPlaceOut

I still like to play the guitar, but I rarely have anything to do with the music business these days. I mean, there is no music business anymore, is there?

Steve Jones

BusinessMusicGuitarPlayMean

The blues scale was the first thing I learned. It's just a pentatonic scale with a flat seventh and a few notes that sound cool when you bend them. And because people have amalgamated the blues into this rock-blues scale, if you're using it, you better sound like a real authentic blues player.

Steve Vai

PeopleCoolBetterYouBluesBend

Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am going to try it; and am going to test, in the most rigid way I know, the awful question whether it is my vocation.

Sidney Lanier

BusinessSoulI AmPoetryWriting

I'm an actor. Since I was a teenager, I have had to play different characters, negotiating the cultural expectations of a Pakistani family, Brit-Asian rudeboy culture, and a scholarship to private school. The fluidity of my own personal identity on any given day was further compounded by the changing labels assigned to Asians in general.

Riz Ahmed

FamilyCultureDaySchoolIdentity

My husband was an Air Force pilot man years ago and recently an Air Force wife thanked me for my service! I laughed and said, 'No, I wasn't in the Air Force, my husband was!' And she smiled and said, 'If he served, you served. And thank you.'

Robyn Carr

ServiceWifeManMeHusbandYou

Definitely in voice-over, you have to be completely uninhibited. More than that, you have to put yourself back into the enjoyment of pretending.

Molly Quinn

YourselfYouBackMorePretending

I want to be financially secure by the time I have kids.

Conor McGregor

TimeWantKidsSecureFinancially

You use up a lot of mental energy in the Champions League.

Claudio Ranieri

EnergyYouChampionsUpMentalUse

I could always throw stuff, starting with tantrums.

Breaux Greer

AlwaysStartingTantrumsThrowStuff

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