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Emily V. Gordon Quotes

Awkward conversations are painful, but they're way easier than divorce, resentment, and heartbreak.

Emily V. Gordon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: May 3, 1979

Topics

Divorce Way Resentment Awkward Than

I become involved with things that speak to me and move me and make me laugh and frighten me.

Me Speak Laugh Become Make Me Laugh

When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.

Love Women Respect Men Chance

I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.

Think Common Sense Say Crime Sense

There is a great suspicion of saying that anyone, especially a child, is 'the product of destiny,' or 'formed by fate,' or 'predestined for a certain life.' I am suspicious, too, of efforts to cage children or adults in preconceived ideas of who they are or should be.

Life Children Great I Am Child Fate

I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my senior year, when I couldn't be a Girl Scout anymore. I was in clubs like Junior Achievement, and I ran track and field. My grades were good, but then toward 11th grade they were nothing. I always went to summer school.

Good Girl Achievement School Year

People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost.

Respect People Lose Lost Educated

It's very tempting to over-eat all the bad things when you're on a film set.

You Bad Things Film Set Bad Things

If there were things I felt the White House needed to be doing differently, I'd probably call them. I have a saying, and I had this in Michigan as chair, which is, 'We're a family.' When you have a difference of opinion in your family, you don't go on 'Jerry Springer'; you pick up the phone, and you call your family member.

Family Opinion Saying Doing Chair

Economic inequality is not about food stamps and homeless shelters. It is about being a devotee of social justice and equality.

Justice Food Equality Homeless Being

Poetry has the ability to create entire moments with just a few choice words. The spacing and line breaks create rhythm, a helpful musicality, a natural flow. The separate stanzas aid in perpetuating a kind of incremental reading, one small chunk at a time.

Time Words Poetry Small Reading

If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market.

Open Market Still Lincoln Abe

The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.

Pierre Bourdieu

Science Sociology Hidden Reveal

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