"Near or far, there are burdens and terrors in sisterhood, and perhaps the nearer, the more complicated."

-- Helen Yglesias

#Sisterhood Quotes #Complicated Quotes #Burden Quotes

“I'm thankful For the blessing And the lessons that I've learned with you By my side”
“These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty; they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.”
“I do remember that when we left [Bernard Leach] after two and a half years, we went home on a boat again - this was before air travel became really easy - and Alix [MacKenzie] turned to me and she said, "You know, that was a great two years of training, but that's not the way we're going to run our pottery."”
“Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.”
“[A]n important new book. . . . Professor Akerlof and Rachel Kranton have invented Identity Economics.”
“Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge and goodness,--these make degrees in heaven, and they must be the graduating scale of a true democracy.”
“You can't argue with what is.... Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.”
“I'm 24 years old and yeah, I'm a different person and I'm definitely more mature, but these are the tops that I'm going to keep on wearing.”

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