Rebecca Traister Quotes

After Emancipation, black women married earlier and more often because they were legally free to do so for the first time, and that was true until after World War II. But middle-class white women married less and later.

Rebecca Traister

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My parents have always been very supportive.

Jessica Williams

ParentsAlwaysBeenSupportiveVery

I try to represent specific experiences of specific characters, and that's all I want to try to do. I don't ever try to think about representing a culture, because its impossible, and someone will fault you. And it just doesn't interest me.

Jhumpa Lahiri

CultureMeImpossibleThinkSomeone

Women are brought up to believe you are going to be the better parent and you know what's best. I don't think that's necessarily true. As much as we have to ask men to step it up, we have to take a look at ourselves and be willing to give up some of that parental power.

Jessica Valenti

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The killing of a disabled person is not 'compassionate'. It is not 'euthanasia'. It is murder.

Stella Young

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Normally, the action is just a gratuitous thing. In the case of Bourne, he was going to learn about himself in the action scenes.

Doug Liman

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As a kid, I was always very shy growing up - I wasn't very good at articulating my thoughts or my feelings. Now that I'm older, I found acting to do that. So it's been an amazing way to sort of express who I am.

Colin Egglesfield

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I love taking on roles that other people have written for me just as much as I take on writing - just not as much of a, 'Oh, that guy.' I want people to start saying, 'Oh, Brett Gelman's new piece is coming out. That's a Brett Gelman movie. That's a a Brett Gelman show.'

Brett Gelman

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You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do.

Renny Harlin

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My goal is to give our taxpayers greater access and visibility into how their taxpayer dollars are being spent.

Ryan Frazier

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I reveled in political science and history of all kinds, and I felt for a long time that I had discovered all the secrets of life in psychology, although its Freudian variety left me cold. The id never made much sense to me.

Richard Cohen

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Teaching is a distraction and a burden, but it's also an incredible stimulus. And a reprieve, in a way. When you're trying to work on something and it's not going anywhere, you can go to school and there's a two-and-a-half-hour block of time in which you can accomplish something.

Marilynne Robinson

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Mitt Romney is a nice guy. But, we know where nice guys finish in politics.

Mark McKinnon

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