Mona Simpson Quotes

The transparency men have enjoyed for generations, about their ability to frankly work while also reveling in fatherhood, is still complicated for women. Which is not to say that anyone can have everything.

Mona Simpson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkWomenMenTransparencySay

Faced with ostracization at school and confinement at home, I turned to karaoke.

Jenny Zhang

HomeSchoolKaraokeConfinement

'Memoryhouse' came out, and there wasn't a single review and zero sales, and after about a year, it was deleted. So I recorded The 'Blue Notebooks' on a little indie label, and my attitude was, 'Well, if nobody is listening, I might as well keep doing what I'm doing'.

Max Richter

AttitudeBlueListeningDoingYear

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.

John Stuart Mill

WifeSameSlaveSenseWordFull

Does the Grammys intentionally use artists for their celebrity, popularity, and cultural appeal when they already know the winners and then program a show against this expectation? Meanwhile, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences hides behind the 'peer' voting system to escape culpability for not even rethinking its approach.

Steve Stoute

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I got my SAG card on my first movie, 'Goin' South,' with Jack Nicholson in 1978.

Mary Steenburgen

FirstGotMovieJackSouthCard

Bras should be comfortable. I hate when you have all those bras with all that wiring that poke into your ribs, and you take it off at the end of the day, and it feels good. It shouldn't feel good to take off your bra at the end of the day. It should be something that feels good throughout the day.

Jazz Jennings

GoodHateDayFeel GoodEndYou

I'm an alpha male - what else can I say?

Johnny Messner

SayAlphaElseMale

In my personal life, if you ask me something which I feel is important, I will talk about it. Like, if you ask me about my sons, I will talk.

Dhanush

LifeMeFeelYouImportantPersonal

For me, life is about experience and being a good person.

Chris Hemsworth

LifeGoodExperienceMeGood Person

Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.

Christopher Hitchens

PeopleIdeasBecomeUneducatedWhom

As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.

Chaz Bono

PressureGenderYouMoreGetYour

I'm from Texas, and Texas has a reputation that far precedes actual Texas, and it is irritating sometimes.

Allison Tolman

ReputationTexasSometimesIrritating

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