Martha Beck Quotes

Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing domestic goddess.

Martha Beck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 29, 1962

Topics

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There's a common perception among college administrators that they should conceal the high level of sexual assaults that take place on their campuses because it would bring discredit to the university, bring them a bad name if it was publicized.

Jimmy Carter

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I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done.

Jim Barksdale

WorkBusinessDoneWayImproveGets

I never noticed my voice. I did become aware as a little kid at camp that I liked doing accents. We'd do plays and skits, and I realized I loved speaking in voices that weren't my own.

Jenny Slate

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So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.

John Hanning Speke

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I love fighting back. I love finding allies, and - famously - I enjoy making enemies.

Andrew Breitbart

LoveFightingFindingEnjoyBack

You want to hit people's ears to make them want to dance in their kitchen. So that is what a hit is to me.

Andy Grammer

DancePeopleMeKitchenYouWant

The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.

Sol LeWitt

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I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible.

Robert Towne

LifeThinkPictureFeelYouBring

I'm not - I'm not going to define people by labels: who's a real Republican, who's not a real Republican.

Lisa Murkowski

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There aren't too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don't think too many writers can say that.

Joy Fielding

PeopleStartThinkSayFinishOut

If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you don't have a regime.

Jon Stewart

StrongEnoughYouJokeHandleYour

Boards without women - blacklist those suckers. It's 2011. They've had the time - it's significant that they don't have women.

Anne M. Mulcahy

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