Stephanie Coontz Quotes

Educated parents find more time to spend with their children by reducing time dedicated to home-based activities that involve little interaction with children.

Stephanie Coontz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChildrenTimeParentsFindMore

I don't think it matters how fast you write. It's how long you thought about it. I like to think of it as a well filling up. I think about it until the well is full, and then I let go.

Jim Harrison

ThinkThoughtLongYouFastGo

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Maya Angelou

MusicLonelinessSpaceBackNotes

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

YouWillAlwaysTakeOppositeWell

One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.

Robert Byrd

LifeFamilyWallsPeopleMeLook

Women I know are smart, educated, intelligent, capable of doing anything that anybody else can do.

Mike Huckabee

WomenSmartDoingKnowIntelligent

Mayors could never get away with the kind of nonsense that goes on in Washington. In our world, you either picked up the trash or you didn't. You either moved an abandoned car or you didn't. You either filled a pothole or you didn't. That's what we do every day. And we know how to get this stuff done.

Michael Nutter

CarDayWorldYouEvery DayKnow

I think I've done every crazy diet there was in the beginning, but it's weird: I'm thinner now than I was when I was modeling. I don't obsess about it.

Molly Sims

BeginningCrazyThinkWeirdDiet

As an African American actress, there are people who have been staples in my life that opened a door that I can walk through. I hope that I can have that impact.

Monique Coleman

LifeHopeWalkPeopleDoorImpact

The sacrifices our warfighters make for us is simply astonishing in modern American society.

Jason Kander

SocietyAmericanModernUsSimply

Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.

Joseph O'Neill

LieYouWayDeceptionLittleLike

I would have to say 'The Crucible' stands out because it was one of the best experiences I've ever had, but, you know, Arthur Miller being present on the set - which was wonderful and incredible - but, to have him in your eye line is quite intimidating. It's such a beautiful language he created, so that was challenging but exciting.

Winona Ryder

BeautifulBestEyePresentLanguage

There's a growing sense among large corporations that to solve global problems like climate change, the responsibility can't fall just on the government. The business community has to be a big piece of that.

William M. Daley

ChangeBusinessCommunityGovernment

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Stephanie Coontz