"While researching 'The Submission,' I went to a……" — Amy Waldman
"While researching 'The Submission,' I went to a protest against the Ground Zero mosque in New York when I was about to give birth to twins. It was about 100 degrees. People thought I was very dedicated."
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33 Quotes by Amy Waldman
Amy Waldman has 33 quotes on this site.
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Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace.
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Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you.
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In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.
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Marrying Cal, the scion of a family whose wealth dated to the Industrial Revolution and had multiplied through every turn…
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The rhetoric is the first step, it coarsens attitudes
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In architecture, space was a material to be shaped, even created. For these men, the material was silence. Silence like…
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Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary.
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In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.
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Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it…
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I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.
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I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
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My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become…
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More Birth Quotes
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The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason…
— David Attenborough
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Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
— Marcus Aurelius
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
— Francis Bacon
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
— Francis Bacon
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They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should…
— Ginger Baker
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There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of…
— James A. Baldwin
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When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I…
— Joyce Banda
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and…
— Amelia Barr
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Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
— Roseanne Barr
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from…
— Charles Baudelaire
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
— Samuel Beckett
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Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
— Max Beerbohm
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