Katha Pollitt Quotes

Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.

Katha Pollitt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I'm an avid Boston Red Sox fan.

John Lithgow

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It's fun to play a character that you can identify with.

Sriti Jha

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Greer is Missouri's second-largest spring. It is a place of pounding, frothing waters and of greeny-cool moss-covered rock, a place of fern and cliffy splendor.

Sue Hubbell

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If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are.

Rodney Brooks

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A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God - more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.

Russell M. Nelson

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I'm not a great horse person, but I love horses, and I love all of it. The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns - I love them.

Mary Steenburgen

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I have learned to not worry about things I can't control.

Jay Weatherill

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I had a crisis of confidence and ran away from being a standup for a while.

Dominic Holland

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By doing what they must do to keep their margins strong and their stock price healthy, every company paves the way for its own disruption.

Clayton M. Christensen

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I can't really see myself writing about politics because I'm not really into it, and one of the worst things you can do is write about things you're not into.

Brian Fallon

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How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of three men absorb the rights of two men, and make them as if they had never existed.

Auberon Herbert

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My husband and I have very similar desires when we're entertaining. We want everybody to feel comfortable and welcome, to know they can kick off their shoes and be able to come right in.

Tiffani Thiessen

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