Katha Pollitt Quotes

Since 'Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights' came out, I've done a fair amount of public speaking, and the two statistics that always make the audience sit up are that nearly one in three women will have had at least one abortion by menopause and 61 percent of women who have abortions are already mothers.

Katha Pollitt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I like test screenings. I like to see a movie with an audience of strangers. I think it tells you a lot.

Andrew Dominik

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Being from New York, living in L.A., being in Chicago, you kind of get more of the big-city, melting-pot sort of thing. But when you drive through the country, there's so many small pockets of people that don't experience people of different backgrounds. So what they've seen on television is their baseline.

Mekhi Phifer

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Honestly, for me, when the Pacers win a championship, I'll feel a little bit better.

Metta World Peace

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One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate.

Rocco Buttiglione

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The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible.

Mike Rounds

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I want to be Intercontinental Champion. I also want to be a tag-team champion.

Luke Harper

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Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

Desiderius Erasmus

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Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter.

Denis Leary

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If you develop a product that gets what the customer is trying to get done, you don't have to advertise; people will just pull it into their lives.

Clayton M. Christensen

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'The Avengers' is exciting on the level 'The Matrix' or 'Indiana Jones' was when I was kid. I think it will be timeless.

Clark Gregg

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Vancouver is an amazing city and luckily, growing up in the Seattle area, I was able to immerse myself into the culture at a young age, traveling back and forth across the border for skating competitions as a youngster.

Apolo Ohno

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It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.

William Wilberforce

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