Alissa Quart Quotes

There is a psychological and physical toll from the pressure to recreate ourselves in midlife. To survive as workers, we have to deny, on some level, the realities of our bodies - bodies that age and give birth.

Alissa Quart

Recitation: by Male by Female

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AgeSurvivePressureBirthWorkers

Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.

Jim Wallis

SometimesDisasterRevealNatural

I have not become the artist I believe I am. I want to become a stadium act. I'm not done at all.

Jimmy Cliff

I AmBelieveArtistDoneWantAct

Poetry taught me a great deal about language and images, but when it came to plotting, I was stumped. It's been very much a learn-by-doing thing for me.

Jennifer McMahon

GreatPoetryMeLanguageDealBeen

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.

Maurice Sendak

WorkArtParentsPeopleThinkTest

George Bush and I share a love of steel brush cutters. It turns out we use the same professional brush cutter. He asked me what I did. I said I cut brush. He says, 'Oh, what do you use?' I said steel. He goes, 'Oh, me too.'

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

LoveMeYouProfessionalSaidSteel

There is an analogy between conservation and education reform. The coalition around education reform is the biggest bipartisan thing going in this state right now. We need to recapture the big bipartisan spirit for conservation.

Rob McKenna

EducationNowSpiritNeedRightBig

You never know what could be interesting tomorrow.

Robbie Robertson

TomorrowInterestingYouKnowNever

Audi has fewer problems with electronics than any other company.

Martin Winterkorn

ProblemsCompanyElectronicsThan

With 'Nighty Night' series one, Oprah Winfrey's channel took it on, so she must have liked it.

Julia Davis

NightSheMustLikedTookChannel

My musician friends could always practice what they loved doing, but I can't go on a street corner and start reciting a monologue. Acting is very collaborative, and you always need other people with you - mainly an audience.

Julia Stiles

PracticePeopleStartLovedDoing

Music is an outlet, so I'm not going to get things out that aren't true. Sometimes I do exaggerate - but only a little bit.

Jorja Smith

MusicSometimesTrueOutLittleGet

I do what I can to make young people understand that drugs can destroy their lives. I'm the perfect example of what people can accomplish when they have regained a sane body and spirit.

Don Johnson

PeopleAccomplishBodyPerfectI Can

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