"At 20 and 30, we are like travelers……" — Karen DeCrow
"At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to learn when the post office is open. Trivia looms important; critical issues fade into a pastel background, unrecognized."
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Karen DeCrow
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33 Quotes by Karen DeCrow
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In the battle between the sexes, men and women will go practically to the end of the earth in illogical,…
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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I joined NOW on an issue of pay.
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As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist - Groucho, that is. When you have lived…
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If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot,…
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No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death…
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From 1961 to 1964, I was fortunate enough to work at a think tank in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago.…
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I enjoy practicing law too much to even contemplate retiring, but I often think about engaging in serious study of…
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In the 1950s in the United States, few music lovers were listening to chamber music. Daddy played Bach and Haydn…
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Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor…
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Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that…
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