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Natalie Merchant Quotes

Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.

Natalie Merchant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: October 26, 1963

Topics

Childhood People Window Motherhood

My mom worked as a housekeeper, and I saw her relationship with her employers - how on the one hand she spent more time with these women than with a lot of her friends, and how in certain ways they were friends. But then they weren't.

Jesmyn Ward

Women Relationship Time Mom Friends

I try to look on all the great things God's done, and not focus on the negative. It's a perspective.

Joel Osteen

God Great Perspective Focus Negative

Fighter, father, husband - it's all the same person. I know the UFC stereotype is that we're all thugs. But I'd like people to know that I don't have to switch one off to try to be another. Being a father and a fighter, it's who I am.

Robert Whittaker

Father I Am People Husband Person

You know you're old when you've lost all your marvels.

Mary Browne

You Lost Know Old Your

I think we've broken a lot of barriers and kind of shattered our glass ceiling that was there for women. There are so many great fighters, and we've proved a lot of people wrong. A lot of the times, our fights are the best fights on the card.

Miesha Tate

Women Great Best Broken People Kind

I've never had an exclusive relationship to a room where I write. I used to want one.

Mona Simpson

Relationship Want Never Write Room

I've been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.

Mitski

Time Hobby Offended Assume Been

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Lou Holtz

Test True Others Ability Fine Thing

I did a lot of musicals when I first started my career, so I can carry a tune well.

Josh Dallas

Career I Can First Carry Started

I find this mortifying to admit, but I have one of those balls that helps my posture. They're hard to sit on, so it stops me from sitting too long... I also wear a pair of 3M(TM) PELTOR(TM) Optime(TM) II Ear Muffs. They're the same ones that people wear on the tarmac among the planes - noise blockers.

Claire Cameron

People Me Long Find Admit Sitting

I think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all African-Americans think alike.

Anne Northup

Perspective Problems Think Political

There is no such thing as agflation. Rising commodity prices, or increases in any prices, do not cause inflation. Inflation is what causes prices to rise. Of course, in market economies, prices for individual goods and services rise and fall based on changes in supply and demand, but it is only through inflation that prices rise in aggregate.

Peter Schiff

Fall Rise Changes Rising Individual