Katha Pollitt Quotes

I put out a call on Twitter and Facebook and email for women to tell me their stories about their abortions. And many women said, 'I told my boyfriend I was pregnant, and that was the last I ever heard of them.'

Katha Pollitt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WomenMeSaidOutEmailTell

If one door is closed, break a window anyway.

Jidenna

DoorWindowBreakClosedAnyway

The stories we tell about each other matter very much. The stories we tell ourselves about our own lives matter. And most of all, I think the way that we participate in each other's stories is of deep importance.

Jessica Jackley

DeepThinkWayMatterTellOwn

I'm totally obsessed with Tilda Swinton. She has this strange, beautiful sexiness about her. I love everything she does. And I love her hair. It was a little bit of an inspiration for mine.

Megan Rapinoe

LoveBeautifulHairStrangeSheHer

I am looking at opening a school of social engineering. The McAfee School of Social Engineering has a nice ring to it. Beyond that, it is hard to say what life will bring my way.

John McAfee

LifeSchoolI AmLookingEngineering

Most every dental school has discount dental services.

Matthew Lesko

SchoolMostDiscountDentalEvery

Let me tell you who we conservatives are: we love people. When we look out over the United States of America, when we are anywhere, when we see a group of people, such as this or anywhere, we see Americans. We see human beings. We don't see groups. We don't see victims.

Rush Limbaugh

LovePeopleMeAmericaYouLook

I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.

Mary Cheney

WomanMomBornMoreNeverShe

I'm a news junkie.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

News

Every year, every day, every month, I am proving myself.

Mohamed Salah

MyselfDayI AmYearEvery DayAm

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

WillExposureContemptConstantThem

If you look at the end of a roll of toilet paper, like the brown paper tube, I basically worked in a factory that made humongous ones like that - for concrete or anything you wanted to put in there. I was the guy who chopped those up into smaller pieces, put them in a box, throw it in a pallet, wrap it up, jump in a forklift and put it on a truck.

Demetrious Johnson

TruckEndYouLookJumpConcrete

As long as I keep getting cast, I don't care if it's typecast.

Chris Pratt

CareLongKeepCastGetting

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