"Women are actually superb at math; they just……" — Caroline Knapp
"Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intricate personal math in which desires are split off from one another, weighed, balance, traded, assessed."
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Caroline Knapp
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56 Quotes by Caroline Knapp
Caroline Knapp has 56 quotes on this site.
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Alcoholism is the disease of more.
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I once heard a woman who had lost her dog say that she felt as though a color were suddenly…
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Dogs possess a quality that's rare among humans -- the ability to make you feel valued just by being you…
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It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I…
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Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious…
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When you love somebody, or something, its amazing how willing you are to overlook the flaws.
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Smooth and ordered on the outside; roiling and chaotic and desperately secretive underneath, but not noticeably so, never noticeably so.
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Love—the desire to love and be loved, to hold and be held, to give love even if your experience as…
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The freedom to choose...means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws…
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So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that,…
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When I drank, the part that felt dangerous and needy grew bright and strong and real. The part that coveted…
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Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine…
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More Assessed Quotes
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To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised,…
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Imagine how dull life would be if variables assessed for admission to a graduate program really did predict who would…
— Unknown Author
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So great are the psychological restistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war…
— Harold Lasswell
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It takes the passage of time before an image of a commonplace subject can be assessed. The great difficulty of…
— George A Tice
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Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers,…
— Henry Knox
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Writing is for stories to be read, books to be published, poems to be recited, plays to be acted, songs…
— Frank Smith
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The early Christians' opponents all accepted that Jesus existed, taught, had disciples, worked miracles, and was put to death on…
— Graham Stanton
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Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed and that the Gospels contain plenty of valuable…
— Graham Stanton
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Amazingly, 85 percent of prescribed standard medical treatments across the board lack scientific validation, according to the New York Times.…
— Kenny Ausubel
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Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves
— Saint Augustine
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Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph…
— Edwin Newman
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To my knowledge, there have been no studies done on the effects of antidepressants and altitude. But it is hugely…
— Dale Archer
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