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Claire Messud Quotes

My mother turned 40 in 1973. So in 1970 - when 'The Female Eunuch' came out and Ms. magazine was founded - my mom was 37 with two children, and she was just that little bit too old, and the circumstances of her life were set up in a certain way that for her to fulfill her ambitions and dreams, she would have had to break with the family.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1966

Topics

Life Family Mother Dreams Children

Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. Like I don't know whether I'm alive or whether I died. I wasn't afraid before. And having been dead once, I shouldn't feel fear. But I am afraid. I don't understand why.

Fear I Am Me Feel Dream Alive

When I was playing for Nacional in Montevideo, the players who lived outside the city would be given money by the club to get there and back on the bus.

Money City Back Outside Club Bus

There's lots of bad things about teaching, but the really good thing is that you get to be around young people - irritating as they are.

Good People You Bad Young Things

I sort of go with the flow of what's happening on the set.

Go Flow Set Happening Sort

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

Attitude Walk Tall Got

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

Desiderius Erasmus

Wife Man People Free Doubt Insanity

My childhood was spent with dogs, and I work with dogs surrounding me. This relationship is hardly unique - man-and-dog stories date back to ancient history, up to 10,000 years ago - but it feels that way to me. I used to have a love-hate relationship with dog stories because some got the dynamic right but most were dead wrong.

David Wroblewski

Work Dog Relationship History Me

My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a member of. Always had to pay my own rent. But I don't really have any concept of how money works. I don't know how much things cost. Like a BMW. Or a quart of milk. It's embarrassing.

Money Job House Know Milk My Own

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

Christopher Stanley

Humility Think Person Being I Think

In the beginning, I was doing whatever came my way. But that's how life is. I am not sitting around calling a 'daddy' to make a movie for me.

Life Beginning I Am Me Doing Way

We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.

Children World Better Environment

Is it not typical that we have a Tory Government that wants, just like its pals in the Labour Party, constantly to talk down Scotland's prospects?

Nicola Sturgeon

Government Down Party Talk Just

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