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title: "2 Ear Quotes By Karen DeCrow"
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> [The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-decrow/the-irony-is-that-the-more-we-fight-age-the-more-it-shows-paint-on-a/)

[Karen DeCrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-decrow/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92a/karen-decrow-12907_age_the-irony-is-that-the-more-we-fight-age_794529.jpg)

> [One year, I was a patron of a new opera. It was, to put it kindly, unpleasant to the ear. The friends I went with hated it. Keeping quiet about my contribution, I was outed when one of them, reading…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-decrow/one-year-i-was-a-patron-of-a-new-opera-it-was-to-put-it-kindly/)

[Karen DeCrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-decrow/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d57/karen-decrow-12907_about_one-year-i-was-a-patron-of-a-new-opera-i_1548744.jpg)

## More by Karen DeCrow

> [As any opera fan knows, lawyers and judges do not fare well in most operas. Just consider the productions of 'Andrea Chenier,' 'Aida, Norma,'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-decrow/as-any-opera-fan-knows-lawyers-and-judges-do-not-fare-well-in-most/)

[Karen DeCrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-decrow/)

> [Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-decrow/operas-elucidate-in-a-way-sometimes-absent-in-other-theatrical/)

[Karen DeCrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-decrow/)

> [Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-decrow/despite-the-strength-of-the-feminist-movement-in-the-1970s-and-beyond/)

[Karen DeCrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-decrow/)

> [In my opinion, the battles over birth control and Planned Parenthood are primarily neither political nor religious. This is an issue of equality for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-decrow/in-my-opinion-the-battles-over-birth-control-and-planned-parenthood/)

[Karen DeCrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-decrow/)

> [In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-decrow/in-chamber-music-the-audience-can-hear-each-instrument-and-understand/)

[Karen DeCrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-decrow/)

> [If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-decrow/if-a-woman-makes-a-unilateral-decision-to-bring-pregnancy-to-term-and/)

[Karen DeCrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-decrow/)

> [Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-decrow/just-as-the-supreme-court-has-said-that-women-have-the-right-to/)

[Karen DeCrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-decrow/)

> [The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the elaborate sets.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-decrow/the-metropolitan-opera-of-course-is-the-gold-standard-in-opera-the/)

[Karen DeCrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-decrow/)

> [Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-decrow/daddy-was-hilarious-he-could-take-the-most-mundane-event-and-tell-it/)

[Karen DeCrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-decrow/)

> [The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-decrow/the-irony-is-that-the-more-we-fight-age-the-more-it-shows-paint-on-a/)

[Karen DeCrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-decrow/)

> [The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with 'Ulysses,' but also with his other writings. The conventional wisdom is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-decrow/the-censors-have-always-had-a-field-day-with-james-joyce-specifically/)

[Karen DeCrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-decrow/)

> [Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-decrow/knowing-constitutional-law-helps-one-at-the-opera-the-trial-in-billy/)

[Karen DeCrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-decrow/)

> [We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-decrow/we-should-cease-thinking-about-men-as-the-enemy-of-children-and-women/)

[Karen DeCrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-decrow/)

> [I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-decrow/i-was-running-for-mayor-of-syracuse-the-first-woman-to-run-for-mayor/)

[Karen DeCrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-decrow/)

> [Is it a recent occurrence that women have tried to control when and if they reproduced? Absolutely not. By 2000 B.C., there was worldwide…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-decrow/is-it-a-recent-occurrence-that-women-have-tried-to-control-when-and/)

[Karen DeCrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-decrow/)

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