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Katha Pollitt Quotes

My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.

Katha Pollitt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Father Mother Death Control Year

I started out real young as a tight end, but I was never getting the football. I knew when I played basketball, I loved to have control of the ball. When I played baseball, I was a pitcher. I always wanted to be the guy throwing the passes and making a difference, I guess.

Jim Kelly

Football Baseball Control Basketball

All of my peers were becoming bajillionaires. There was no one from college left in the temp force.

Jennifer Konner

College Force Peers Left Becoming

Don't let a temporal way to connect be a poor substitute for an eternal way. Without first being connected vertically to God, all the social networking contacts in the world won't be enough.

Robert A. Schuller

God World Networking Enough Way

It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I need to be interested in the whole thing. I'm not there to be on my own. And if I'm going to be with these people, I'd best be interested in their work.

Mary McDonnell

Work Best People Me Important Need

I don't underestimate audiences' intelligence. Audiences are much brighter than media gives them credit for. When people went to a movie once a week in the 1930s and that was their only exposure to media, you were required to do a different grammar.

Michael Mann

Intelligence People Media Credit You

People don't have any confidence in Jefferson City. There's incredible anger in the political establishment, and one of the reasons is special interests dominate the Capitol in our state.

Josh Hawley

Confidence Anger People City Special

Now the fact that people are saying, 'Oh my God, he's finally come out' - I was never in.

Johnny Weir

God People Saying Now Never Out

At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy.

Desi Arnaz

Believe Comedy Doing Too Much Much

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

Donald Hall

Life Poetry My Life Done Important

'Blind Date' was my lifeline. It was 90 minutes when I could forget about everything, forget about the world.

Cilla Black

World Blind Forget Everything Date

I think my cat is adorable, and I probably give it too much fresh chicken. Maybe if I had a child, I'd be giving the chicken to the child.

Alison Goldfrapp

Child Think Giving Too Much Chicken

Musicians make up for the copies of their songs that get pirated by performing live. I don't think there will be as many people showing up to hear me read as to hear Beyonce sing. We need to make sure piracy is dealt with effectively.

Scott Turow

Live People Me Think Musicians Will