"I guess the biggest difference between me and many of today's female graduate students is that a lot of them were raised by mothers with careers, and they got college degrees studying with female professors. Both of those factors make the enterprise of educating yourself for a serious profession seem feasible."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Debra Monroe

#Mother Quotes #College Quotes #Serious Quotes

“Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating.”

Source : Norman Douglas (1932). “Paneros, Some Words on Aphrodisiacs and the Like”
“However many people complain about the "red tape," it would be sheer illusion to think ... continuous administrative work can be carried out in any field except by means of officials working in offices.... The choice is only that between bureaucracy and dillettantism.”
“The Duke of Edinburgh has perfected the art of saying hello and goodbye in the same handshake.”
“I'm not a big filmophile. I don't watch movies a lot for a hobby. I spend all my time watching sporting events. Because, opposed to movies, you can never tell how they're going to end.”
“AA makes Scientology look credible,”
“I'm going to do my job and I don't care if I'm not friends with anybody. I don't need to be best friends with all my co-workers to do a good job.”

Source : Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. September 30, 2009.
“I started as a black-and-white teenage photographer, and I'm still there decades after. In some ways, the genre is almost gone. I am thinking of true, stubborn, lifetime black-and-white photographers, as opposed to black-and-white as a photographic commodity.”
“You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart.”

Source : "Is There a Santa Claus" (editorial), Sun (N.Y.), 21 Sept. 1897

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