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Eileen Pollack Quotes

We still raise girls to look to other people for assurance they are attractive and smart, while boys are raised to determine their own value. Many girls are still made to feel it's not feminine to be good at science or math.

Eileen Pollack

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1956

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Good Science Smart Value People Own

I would be copping out if I stayed in the myth of the '60s.

Jerry Rubin

Out Myth Would Stayed

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

Joel Osteen

I Am Bible I Can Am Says

It was as a mother that I needed my mother back, and I needed to conjure her anew and think about what she would have counselled and what she would have given.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

Mother Think Back She Her Would

It's a liminal thing, humming, And I'm always interested in liminal things.

Max Richter

Always Things Interested Thing

Joe Louis was one of my first heroes.

Robert Goulet

First Heroes Joe Louis Louis Joe

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.

Jean Piaget

Knowledge Words World Self Contact

My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.

Michael Eisner

Strength Two Coming Up Last Ninth

When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way.

John Zorn

Writing Feel Trying Place Sometimes

When I read 'The Master', I felt that I had read a true classic. It's so rare nowadays that you have that feeling: it was a privilege to read it.

Amanda Foreman

You Feeling True Privilege Classic

I'm in this for the long haul, I want to be doing this until I die. I am a standup comedian. I know a lot of people say I'm not, but I am.

Stewart Lee

I Am People Die Doing Long Know

It's actually just as cool to be on television as to be in a movie, and nobody's ashamed of this back and forth.

Brett Gelman

Cool Back Television Nobody Ashamed

I feel friendship towards philosophers, but towards sophists, teachers of literature, or any other such kind of godforsaken people, I neither feel friendship now, nor may I ever do so in the future.

Apollonius of Tyana

Friendship Future People Literature