"Oh, where is the Fairy Godmother of explanations when you need her?"

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Source : Allison Pearson (2004). “I don't know how she does it: the life of Kate Reddy, working mother”

Allison Pearson

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“The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.”
“I have a rule that I won't Google my own name.”

Source : "Topher Grace’s ‘Star Wars’ Edits Explained: Actor Discusses Editing Three Prequels Into One Film". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2012.
“One of my friends once saw another guy's (criminal) record and said, 'Look, this guy is a born troublemaker, just a loser.' I had to tell him, 'No, that's my record-and it doesn't include my juvenile history.”
“Great children's books are wisdom dipped in words and art.”
“What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new ...”
“Remember that time you tried to hump the bridge?”
“I have nothing but great respect for great scholars. But I was in grad school in the '80s and '90s, at the height of the theory craziness. It had a big part in why I ended up becoming a writer rather than a scholar, because I thought, "I just can't play these games." I was interested in literature because I loved literature, and so much of the theoretical positioning, at that moment 25 years ago, was antagonistic to literature. You know, trying to show that Jane Austen is a terrible person because she wasn't thinking about colonialism.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Most Americans who made it past the fourth grade have a pretty good idea who Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr., were. Not many Americans have even heard of Alice Paul, Howard W. Smith, and Martha Griffiths. But they played almost as big a role in the history of womenâ€™s rights as Marshall and King played in the history of civil rights for African-Americans. They gave women the handle to the door to economic opportunity, and nearly all the gains women have made in that sphere since the nineteen-sixties were made because of what they did.”

Source : "The Sex Amendment". www.newyorker.com. July 21, 2014.

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