Lev Grossman I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe. – Lev Grossman Academic Quotes Anxious Quotes Coast Quotes East Quotes Family Quotes Intense Quotes Overly Quotes Tribe Quotes Supposedly I’ve got traces of an English accent, though I can’t hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who’s English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian. I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it odd that I went to both Harvard and Yale, and I guess it is odd, but that’s just what people did where I grew up.
Melanie MartinezMusic Cry Baby is very close to my heart. I feel like I am her in a lot of ways. I want to continue making music from her perspective. – Melanie Martinez
Josiah Strong There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no such influence to destroy spiritual life and power. – Josiah Strong
Desiree Rogers I think the Social Office is really the office where East meets West. For those that don’t know, the East side is typically the First Lady’s side of the house. The West side is typically the President’s side of the house. – Desiree Rogers
Kimberle Williams CrenshawWomen Sexism isn’t a one-size-fits-all phenomenon. It doesn’t happen to black and white women the same way. – Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Dawn Richard My grandmother had a Ph.D in library science, so I grew up in a library, and I would appreciate those books and the smell of them and how they’d have these series, and it was cool to me. I always felt like, if I had an opportunity, I’d create an album that felt like a series. – Dawn Richard
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