Ayobami Adebayo I must have listened to at least 10 covers of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ – Jeff Buckley’s cover is usually my go-to song. – Ayobami Adebayo Buckleys Quotes Cohens Quotes Cover Quotes Covers Quotes Goto Quotes Hallelujah Quotes Jeff Quotes Leonard Quotes Listened Quotes Song Quotes I wanted to write about extended family systems. You have people you can fall back on, and it’s good. But what if you don’t fit into what is expected of you? There is a strong view in Nigeria, as in many other cultures, that a marriage is not complete without children. I don’t agree; I’m wary of the idea that people have to have some particular functionality in order to be full members of society.
J Paul GettyMarriage I have never been given to envy – save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily. – J Paul Getty
Douglas Brunt If there is going to be any meaningful sales, it’s going to be through word of mouth and people recommending it to their book club and then a thousand more book clubs do it, and then you get into real sales numbers. – Douglas Brunt
Donovan McNabb In this position I play, it’s just repetition and continuing to throw the routes and getting that velocity back that you would throw in game speed. – Donovan McNabb
Chrystia Freeland Motherhood may be a ‘killer’ when it comes to becoming a Master of the Universe, but among middle-class mothers, even after that touch of baby’s lips to bosom, a big and growing number find themselves able – and often required – to bring home the family bacon. – Chrystia Freeland
Nikki Glaser Just sharing things that are either embarrassing or possibly relatable, searching for that laugh so that someone makes me feel less alone. Like, ‘Oh, they laughed, so they get what I’m saying. – Nikki Glaser
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