"When a woman acts as though sheâ€™s capable of everything, she gets stuck doing everything."

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Sherry Argov

#Stuck Quotes #Capable Quotes

“Tell you what, if there were gays in the army 'Saving Private Ryan' would have been a hell of a lot shorter film. There is no way it would take gay men three hours to find Matt Damon.”
“The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.”
“I believe strongly that the opportunity is here for us in America to finally have a healthcare system that we can really be proud of. But it's got to be one where everybody is involved. Everybody: consumers, employers, providers, health-insurance companies, everybody.”
“Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the entire history of the New World. From the Spanish exportation of Aztec cacao, and the Dutch invention of the chemical process for making cocoa, on down to the capitalist empire of Hershey, PA, and the lifestyle marketing of Seattle's Starbucks, the modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top.”

Source : "The Partly Cloudy Patriot". Book by Sarah Vowell, 2001.
“If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party, they're contagious and you can catch it from them.”
“I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.”
“I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives, is to buy some Greek authors; after that, I shall buy clothes.”
“Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.”

Source : "It's Spreading" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. June 1, 2009.

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