Katha Pollitt Quotes

Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?

Katha Pollitt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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If I had had a thing like an iPad when I was a kid, then I never would have gotten into the habit of writing things down by hand.

Joe Haldeman

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I don't enjoy doing stand-up. I see it as being like exercise: I feel good about it after I've done it.

Jessie Cave

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Coming from New York, you're kind of indoctrinated with anti-L.A. sentiment, but California is just a really dope state.

Jesse Williams

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The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

Anaxagoras

PlaceSameEveryDescent

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

Mary McCarthy

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The environment on the 'Chewing Gum' set is where everyone can work to the best of their abilities and everyone is happy. So, if I'm not happy with something, I've learnt that you don't start flailing about; you go in quietly, and there's a conversation.

Michaela Coel

WorkBestHappyStartYouGo

Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.

Milos Forman

HumorMeSurviveYouKnowImportant

What makes a great song - you don't put it into words. You feel it. The perfect lyric. The perfect melody. It makes you feel something.

Diane Warren

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God definitely blessed me with power. I still don't know the limits of my own power.

Deontay Wilder

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My favorite question is 'What do you do?' I'm like, 'I'm a walking cliche: I'm a model and an actress.'

Dree Hemingway

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They were singing, Gillette, the best a man can get, with a lot of guys hugging their fathers and sailing and riding bikes. I suddenly felt a long way from the best a man could get and I thought it would be nice to get from there to the best.

Craig Ferguson

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There is no one single solution to the gun violence issue, nor are there any easy answers.

Brad Schneider

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