Patricia Meyer Spacks Quotes

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

Patricia Meyer Spacks

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WomenMenVanityMoralityInsult

We signed to play until the day we died, and we did.

Jimmy Greaves

DayPlayDidDiedUntilSigned

For dinner, I'll grill chicken with asparagus and call it a day.

Jessie James Decker

DayDinnerChickenCallGrill

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

Michael Collins

AloneWayBeenKnewBeforeEver

Aaron Spelling always had his finger on the pulse of pop culture, he knew what the public wanted to see. He was one of the most loyal men in this business and believed in me at a time in my career when no one else would. My prayers are with his family.

Alyssa Milano

FamilyBusinessTimeCultureMenMe

It no longer makes sense to see singlehood and marriage as two distinct and stable social categories that should be accorded different legal rights and social esteem.

Stephanie Coontz

MarriageLegalTwoSeeRightsSense

When you visit a foreign city you are in it, but not of it, separated by a glass wall. Once, while a student, I was getting dressed in my ground-floor room when a family of Italians crossed the grass to watch, as if I were laid on for their amusement and instruction.

Simon Hoggart

FamilyCityYouWallStudentGlass

Some of my favorite drag queens are women.

Trixie Mattel

WomenDragFavoriteSomeQueens

I like hurting people.

Tony Bellew

PeopleLikeHurting

At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and become articulate. And doing that was what brought me into writing songs. It's like therapy for me, because it exposes what I'm really thinking.

Roy Harper

SchoolMeWritingThinkingLearn

Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if you could ever do it again.

Martin Scorsese

PictureYouKnowSometimesEditing

I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them.

Dorothy Allison

LoveResponsibilityPeopleEnough

Before I got famous, I was like a rake. When I was a teenager, I lived on nervous energy. And I always forgot to eat. It was not something I was obsessed with. And then suddenly I got famous, people started taking me out to fancy joints. And the pounds pile on. So I'm much more conscious now about when I eat. How I eat. What I eat.

Boy George

PeopleMeEnergyFamousNowNervous

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