Katha Pollitt Quotes

Abortion opponents say women seek abortions in haste and confusion. Pro-choicers reply: Abortion is the most difficult, agonizing decision a woman ever makes.

Katha Pollitt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 14, 1949

Topics

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I look at some of the old villains in the Disney movies. If you really listen, you can hear some of the villains or some of the supporting characters, they use the voices over and over because they were so versatile in the way that they performed on voiceovers.

Jennifer Stone

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I've been a pretty selfish mom and a very unselfish athlete for about three years now and it's time to put my family first. It's probably time to move on.

Melanie Roach

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I've never changed the way I live. I still walk the streets; I don't give a damn. And everyone's very nice to me. But this new idea of being famous for no reason at all? I can't actually get my head round it.

John Hurt

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The world is under siege, in conflict, but it is enthusiastic about Argentina.

Mauricio Macri

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For years after 'The Last Waltz,' I got all kinds of silly movie offers - or, maybe, not silly, but parts that are not my calling... lots of offers to play some wonderful boyfriend.

Robbie Robertson

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Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column.

Rory Bremner

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There is more hooey spread about the Second Amendment. It says quite clearly that guns are for those who form part of a well-regulated militia, i.e., the armed forces including the National Guard. The reasons for keeping them away from everyone else get clearer by the day.

Molly Ivins

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My favorite was 'The Secret Garden'. I loved it, and I think it's had a big influence on all of my characters. 'The Secret Garden' is about transgressions and imperfect people.

Judith Viorst

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If you give children the freedom to do very little, quite a lot will do very little.

Jasper Fforde

FreedomChildrenYouWillLittle

I was the first to sign up for Botox when it first came out.

Janice Dickinson

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Our physiological constitution is obviously a product of Darwinian processes, insofar as you buy the evolutional theory as a generative, as an account of the mechanism that generated us. Our physiology evolved, our behaviors evolved, and our accounts of those behaviors, both successful and unsuccessful, evolved.

Jordan Peterson

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People don't just want to be thin. They want to be curvy.

Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

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