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Mona Simpson Quotes

If a mother is sitting in a chair at the office, someone needs to be at home with her child. In some cases, that is a father. Much of the time, the material manifestation of the conflict is a nanny.

Mona Simpson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: June 14, 1957

Topics

Father Mother Home Time Child Chair

I've been in the emergency room for food poisoning.

Jessica St. Clair

Food Emergency Room Been Poisoning

Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was mostly tribal. Tribes were united by language, religion, blood, and belief. They feared other tribes and often warred against them.

Robert Reich

Religion World Language Rise Blood

If your working television sits on top of your non-working television, you might be a redneck.

Jeff Foxworthy

You Television Redneck Top Working

I've always loved Dusty Springfield and Martha Reeves.

Solange Knowles

Loved Always Dusty Martha

Politically, of course, the U.S., despite the flaws in its systems, is still a democracy - we like to associate with democracies. And strategically, the U.S. is a counter-balance to China, a rising China that is not yet a democracy.

Tsai Ing-wen

Democracy Flaws Rising China Still

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Michael Korda

Success Achievement Easy Measure

I want to be a part of the stories that need to be told.

Lucy Fry

Want Need Stories Part

I walked on eggshells a lot. I have a bad self-esteem problem, and my father probably facilitated it. He once looked at me very seriously when I was about 15 and had whipped cream smeared all over myself. He said, 'You'd do anything for a laugh, wouldn't you?'

Judge Reinhold

Father Myself Me Laugh Problem You

You can't treat your voice badly and expect it to stay around.

Cissy Houston

Treat Voice You Expect Stay Your

Dealing with the fame and going from nothing and becoming something where everyone wants a piece of you, your life changes in a day.

Bow Wow

Life Day You Life Changes Nothing

'Downton' took a long time to catch fire in America, but we have been getting good reviews for 'Tango.'

Anne Reid

Good Time Fire America Long Catch

It was my first day at work - and beginning my training on the job, I was given the job of writing cheques and entering their details. The branch was surrounded by hordes of people... soon, they had to close the gates to manage the crowds, and they started pushing in.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

Work Day Job Beginning Training