Virginia Postrel Quotes

More than two decades after the birth of Louise Brown, and all the hysteria that surrounded her 'test tube' conception, we should know that institutions, not technologies, create dystopias. Artificially conceived children are everywhere, beloved by their parents, and they haven't radically altered our world.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 14, 1960

Topics

ChildrenParentsWorldCreateKnow

The Process is never going to end. It's an ongoing thing. I don't think it's ever going to stop. As I have explained before, it's a process for making it to the playoffs, it's another one to make the conference finals, another one to actually go to The Finals and win the championship.

Joel Embiid

WinThinkProcessEndStopGo

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

LifeManHalfPosterityGives

It may take a village to raise a child, but not every villager needs to be a mom or dad. Some of us just need to be who we are.

Meghan Daum

ChildMomVillageNeedTakeMay

If I feel like if there's a few too many people on that path with me, then I want to jump off and find another one.

Maxine Peake

PathPeopleMeFeelFindJump

My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later, blended home - and then watched that home explode, too.

Jeffrey Kluger

FamilyHomeThroughLaterThenToo

You need to be growing and getting better, and in L.A., it's so hard to get bookings. You literally have to pay clubs to book you. It's pay to play, and then you only get 30 minutes. That's no way to get good.

Andy Grammer

GoodBookBetterGetting BetterYou

Is it average Joes like ourselves who go to the ballot box and truly decide who are going to be the leaders, not only of their party - of their government - at the local, at the state, at the federal level? Is that really who's still in charge?

Matt Bevin

GovernmentPartyGoBoxDecide

I'm a weird guy. I'm practically albino. What about me isn't weird?

Mike White

MeWeirdGuyAboutPractically

If there's anything that is the center of my career both creatively and emotionally, it's the Olympics.

Dick Ebersol

CareerAnythingCenterBothOlympics

We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity.

Donald Trump

SpeakDebateSolidarityMindsAlways

I've managed to keep my career going in a way that suits me. I'll perform, and then I'll go home to my actual life, and I've never been so visible.

Debbie Gibson

LifeHomeMeSuitsCareerGo

I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.

Poppy Z. Brite

DayJobWritingProjectGetRather

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