Rebecca Traister Quotes

By demanding more from men and from marriage, it's single women who have perhaps played as large a part as anyone in saving marriage in America.

Rebecca Traister

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Well, like most black Americans, I grew up thinking I was supposed to be a Democrat. It wasn't even something you questioned or thought twice about. Black equaled Democrat.

Angela McGlowan

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That sacred space of conscience where you can exercise your rights in terms of religious freedom and deeply-held, reasonable beliefs is the core of human dignity. In fact, that's the basis for civilization itself. And when you lose that fundamental principle... you have no basis on which to build.

Jeff Fortenberry

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I used to be weak - as did all British fighters - with wrestling, because we don't have high school wrestling or college wrestling here.

Michael Bisping

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'Hill Street,' because of the wacky nature of many of our characters, really allowed us to indulge a kind of cheek-to-jowl juxtaposition of high drama with very low humor.

Steven Bochco

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'Night Mail' belongs quintessentially to the age of steam. It is impossible to simply go with the idea of remaking it.

Tony Harrison

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I have been told I say 'shucks' quite frequently... Shucks, I'll have to work on that.

Aubrey Peeples

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The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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I have stepped into a bigger league with 'Khamoshiyaan,' and I am grateful to Mahesh Bhatt sir. I am also grateful to myself for being patient.

Ali Fazal

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He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

William Samuel Johnson

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If we look honestly at our relationships, we can see so much about how we have created them.

Shakti Gawain

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I wasn't really that interested in playing. I had gone through some hard times not playing in high school, but my coach had it in his mind that basketball was the way I would get an education.

Scottie Pippen

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In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

Tina Turner

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