"Bra-burning never happened. It was completely made up by the media. A couple of women protesting a Miss America pageant threw some bras into a garbage can, and somehow that became this longstanding idea of feminists as bra-burners."

-- Jessica Valenti

#Couple Quotes #Media Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“If you want to communicate, use the telephone”
“The best thing about the world is that it has a mysterious structure and the worst thing is that it has a grievous structure.”

Source : Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Playing in an independent rock band will eventually make you equal parts truck driver, gladiator and mule. Glamour is for those with trust funds.”
“I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.”
“It's an abnormal world I live in. I don't belong anywhere. It's like I'm floating down the middle. I'm never quite sure where I am.”
“People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.”
“I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and pulling their hair because I was there. It was weird. Nobody deserves adulation like that. I tried to explain it to my kids once. I said, 'Mommy used to be kind of cool, kind of like a Britney Spears.”
“I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.”

Source : Interview with Charlie Rose, January 31, 2007.

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