Alissa Quart Quotes

Although federal law prohibits companies with 15 or more employees from discriminating against pregnant job seekers, it can be quite hard for an ordinary woman to land a job if she lets prospective bosses know she is pregnant.

Alissa Quart

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The Olympics is an imperfect interregnum, the parade of nations a fantasy about a peace never won. It offers little relief from strife and no harbor from terror.

Jill Lepore

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Our interests are pretty boundless, as is our appetite for new creative experiences.

Jennifer Konner

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The most direct path to achievement whether you're an entrepreneur, a company executive, or a pro soccer player is to be a great performer and a great team member. This is also the secret to a meaningful career and self-fulfillment.

Maynard Webb

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I was always taking garbage from around the house and making my own toys. I wasn't given a Wii or an Xbox or anything.

Ann Makosinski

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One thing I would like to see is a stronger ladder series for up-and-coming American drivers.

Michael Andretti

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After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought.

Jeff Greenfield

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'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' is, to my mind, a work of perfect genius.

Amity Gaige

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I've got so much going on in my day job. And I've been around politics enough to know all the swirl that's fit to print, and so I focus on the reality of the here and now.

Tom Perez

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It was tough to cope with the pressure of having to talk about menstruation, but now with 'Newsweek' splashing it as the cover story, I thing the point I wished to make has found its mark.

Rupi Kaur

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I think the core of fans' relationship is one that vacillates schizophrenically and mercurially from reverence to resentment. Fans fetishize the players' athletic genius and both deify it and demonize it; witness the way awe turns into anger whenever a player holds out or flips off the offensive coordinator.

David Shields

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True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

William Penn

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No one ever watched competitive swimming.

Peter O'Toole

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