Rebecca Traister Look at somebody like Margaret Sanger, who was married young and had kids but then left her husband and wound up living a kind of single life as she got into the founding of what would become Planned Parenthood. – Rebecca Traister Founding Quotes Husband Quotes Kids Quotes Left Quotes Life Quotes Living Quotes Margaret Quotes Married Quotes Parenthood Quotes Planned Quotes Sanger Quotes Single Quotes Wound Quotes My favorite moment of the 2012 election was the debate question where they asked Romney and Obama what they would do to stem gun violence, and Romney’s answer was you should marry someone. Plenty of the women who were single in the nineteenth century wrote about their desire to evade marriage. Marriage was scary in a lot of ways. It often involved having a lot of kids, losing your autonomy, being in service to a husband and children who were often born at an unremitting pace without the benefit of modern medicine.
Alexander Herzen It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this. – Alexander Herzen
Dan Reynolds Being a Mormon is not a part-time religion. It is your life. You eat, sleep, and breathe Mormonism. – Dan Reynolds
FoodJoe Perry I love Indian food – it’s my favourite cuisine. I love the mixture of spices and the subtle flavours. It’s really erotic; the spices are so sensuous. – Joe Perry
James Gleick A good part of ‘The Information’ is about the transition from an oral to a literary culture. Books effected such a great transformation in the way we think about the world, our history, our logic, mathematics, you name it. I think we would be greatly diminished as a people and as a culture if the book became obsolete. – James Gleick
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