The very first television ad targeted to women was produced by the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign in 1956. It includes footage of a woman… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
America’s drug problem is not going to be solved in courtrooms or legislative hearing rooms by judges and politicians. It will be… — Joseph A. Califano, Jr Copy Share Image
'Two Voices,' from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“I walk through the old yellow sunlight to get to my kitchen table the poem about me lying there with the books… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“I found Dolores Haze at the kitchen table, consuming a wedge of pie, with her eyes fixed on her script. They rose… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I hope we can get back to what I call the kitchen table. Everyday issues that people are really worried about and… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
“I took it for granted that this is what all families did—come together and become an island unto themselves, the kitchen table… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“We sat around the kitchen table picking off of foil-covered plates. Conrad kept sneaking looks at me, and every time I looked… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
What is a family without love? And by family I don't just mean a packed kitchen table with a hoard of children… — Pink Copy Share Image
I usually write at my kitchen table, nothing exotic. I don't need any equipment. I don't have to organise anyone else to… — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
“He picked up one of Lorna's roses and set it in my lap. "Here." I picked it up and smelled it. He… — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
Harriet Beecher Stowe was thirty-nine when she began Uncle Tom's Cabin. She had given birth to seven children and seen one die.… — Sophy Burnham Copy Share Image
“This book is for a black light, a bottom bunk and a hug, For a doorway, a pair of kicked-off shoes and… — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
Like it or not - and often we don't - power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
“Harry went down to breakfast next morning to find the three Dursleys already sitting around the kitchen table. They were watching a… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
When people come up to me and say, "I was at your Game 7 in the playoffs in Toronto," or, "I saw… — Wayne Gretzky Copy Share Image
“Only hours earlier, my da had come in from his job at the bar and changed his clothes, as he always did… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
I'd sit at my kitchen table and start scanning help-wanted ads on my laptop, but then a browser tab would blink and… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Went home briefly to get my halter dress for Hero's party, and Mom was waiting for me at the kitchen table. Either… — Jody Gehrman Copy Share Image
“Constantine sat down next to me, at the kitchen table, I heard the cracking of her swollen joints. She pressed her thumb… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“With all respect to the Buddha and to the early Christian celibates, I sometimes wonder if all this teaching about nonattachment and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Only hours earlier, my da had come in from his job at the bar and changed his clothes, as he always did… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“He called the operator from the phone in the kitchen and then left a message for Mr. Keane at his office. As… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“She moved suddenly, planting her hands against the kitchen floor. Throwing back her head, she screamed, and that sound was full of… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
“How do you know when you're There, I had once wondered. Maybe you're lucky enough to notice the moment it's happening to… — Julie Hockley Copy Share Image
“My Father Comes Home From Work" My father comes home from work sweating through layers of bleached cotton t-shirts sweating through his… — Barbara Brinson Curiel Copy Share Image
“So when people ask you where you're from, you won't have a one-word answer for them. Some people, the kind who use… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
“I know more about my father than I used to know: I know he wanted to be a pilot in the war… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The first time I was ever called ugly, I was thirteen. It was a rich friend of my brother Carlton's over to… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“Last fall, I was sitting at the kitchen table of two friends who have been together since 1972. They tell me a… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
He pulled my coat off my shoulders, looked at it with distaste, hung it on the back of one of the chairs… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
“One can't work/by limelight.//A bowlful/right at/one's elbow//produces no/more than/a baleful/glow against/the kitchen table.//The fruit purveyor's/whole unstable/pyramid//doesn't equal/what daylight did.” — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
some mornings... I sit at the kitchen table shaking salt into the hairs on my arm, and a feeling shoves up in… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“after Mother died I could look at a photograph of her till kingdom come, but it never game me back what it… — Alayna Munce Copy Share Image
“The Gasman leaned over and examined the tangled pile of stereo guts spread out on the kitchen table. “It looks like a… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
“I plant my elbows on the kitchen table, prop up my chin and think: When the hell did the compass needle get… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sitting around our kitchen table from a very early age on, we talked politics, and we talked policy. Never once can I… — Cheri Bustos Copy Share Image
“an idea hit him, he sat wherever he was—at his desk, kitchen table, a bar, or behind the wheel of his car—gnawing… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
