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Sherwood Smith Quotes

Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into 'women's books' except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.

Sherwood Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1951

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Women Men Young Always Names Out

We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort.

John Ashcroft

Effort Washington Need Capacity Our

Too much is made for us; too much is given to us - even those of us who are underprivileged. The poverty is given to us. The difficulties are given to us.

John Edgar Wideman

Poverty Too Much Difficulties Us Who

By definition, chaplains minister to the spiritual needs of our men and women in armed services, a vital function that an individual without any inclination toward spirituality would not be able to perform.

John Fleming

Women Men Spiritual Without Function

I think very long and hard about every possibly offensive joke I want to make. I really hate mean humor and would hate to make anyone reading my jokes feel truly bad.

Megan Amram

Humor Hate Reading Think Feel Bad

I'm probably a better granddad than dad because your role as a grandfather is to be fun, and I'm fun.

John Lithgow

Fun Better Grandfather Because Role

The only kind of notebook I actively dislike is the steno pad, entirely because of that vertical line down the middle of the page. I presume it has some arcane secretarial use, but to me, it's both ugly and confusing.

Michael Dirda

Ugly Me Down Page Kind Line

I can't watch a movie and watch just two minutes and turn it off, then go talk to my girlfriend.

John Singleton

Go Talk Two Girlfriend Turn Watch

The thing I remember most about having a tantrum is not the rage during the tantrum, but the being freaked out afterwards, and embarrassed, and guilty. It's scary to lose control of yourself.

Spike Jonze

Yourself Control Remember Lose Scary

Filming is always a challenge because I'm not used to it. But I approach it head-on. I'm not technically brilliant, but it's the spirit that counts.

Martin Parr

Challenge Spirit Brilliant Always

My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Myself People Wall Lost Realize Up

I like to do films that celebrate life.

Louie Schwartzberg

Life Celebrate Like Films

I'm not a barbarian.

Jason Momoa

Barbarian