"A kid thinks her mother is just that……" — J. Courtney Sullivan
"A kid thinks her mother is just that -- hers. A mother is also a woman, an independent being, who doesn't want to be reminded by anyone, child or otherwise, of her tree-trunk thighs. The world made women's private lives a public affair to people who knew them and even people who didn't."
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24 Quotes by J. Courtney Sullivan
J. Courtney Sullivan has 24 quotes on this site.
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When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being…
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There were so many ways to be twenty-six years old.
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You all seem to think that you should marry someone when you feel this intense emotion, which you call love.…
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Timing was everything when it came to being a woman—the moment you entered the world could seal your fate.
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For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or…
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Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women…
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Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for…
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I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker,…
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This was how the modern working girl behaved. She didn’t hide her femininity or apologize for it, as they did…
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We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't…
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She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature…
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More Affair Quotes
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation…
— Hannah Arendt
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The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of…
— Charles Babbage
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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
— Irving Babbitt
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
— Honore de Balzac
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I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect…
— Roger Bannister
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
— Saint Basil
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one…
— Arnold Bennett
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I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they…
— Aeschylus
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