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Harriet Martineau Quotes

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.

Harriet Martineau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: June 12, 1802 - June 27, 1876

Topics

I Am Seeing See Through Spectacles

I panicked when my son, Jett, stopped eating baby food. He's only two, but his food vocabulary is fantastic. He likes my baked tilapia and string beans with chopped garlic. But he really likes pizza. Sometimes every inanimate object to him is pizza.

Son Food Pizza Baby Eating Him

I work daily, but not always on comics. I'm doing quite a bit of writing now, and I teach as well.

Work Daily Writing Doing Now Teach

I say to consumers: instead of relying totally on critics, drink what you like and like what you drink.

You Say Drink Critics Consumers

I like beautiful writing, pain, unexpected humor, and the message that, at the last second, people are going to be kind to each other. It almost doesn't matter what the genre is.

Beautiful Be Kind Humor Pain People

The first time I went to Helene Hanff's apartment at 305 East 72nd Street, it was 1977, and I was a 16-year-old girl who wanted to be a writer.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

Girl Time Street First Time First

I don't raise my daughter differently than her twin brother, to the point where she only wanted to wear his clothes - sweatpants, baggy T-shirts, and high-tops - for a year straight. She claims it's because she needs to be 'comfortable and functional,' and who can blame her? I would wear a tracksuit seven out of seven days if I could.

Amanda de Cadenet

Daughter Brother Blame Clothes Year

Vision looks inward and becomes duty.

Stephen Samuel Wise

Vision Looks Duty Inward Becomes

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?

Funny Future Space Computers Think

Writing is a journey of discovery because until you start, you never know what will happen, and you can be surprised by what you do - expect the unexpected!

Journey Writing Start Unexpected You

Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston.

More Boston Voyage Well Crew Even

To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

Christopher Hitchens

Good Women Children World Hell

When a part of our nation gets knocked down, we come together to help pick it up again. No questions asked. That's the American way, and I would expect every single member of Congress to support that sentiment with their words, their actions, and their votes.

Together Words Support American Help

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