"It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home."

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Source : Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

Mary Blakely

#Home Quotes #World Quotes #Study Quotes

“I am not gay. I am, as far as I know, heterosexual. I've never been with a guy.”
“David Irving has consistenly applied an evidential double standard, demanding absolute documentary proof to convict the Germans (as when he sought to show that Hitler was not responsible for the Holocaust), while relying on circumstantial evidence to condemn the British (as in his account of the Allied bombing of Dresden).”

Source : David Cannadine (1998). “History in Our Time”, p.224, Yale University Press
“I think people like to have everything be perfectly morally clear. When the lines get blurred it worries them. I'm not worried. I don't think the men are either. But I think that the videos bring up feelings in people that they don't want to feel. Sometimes people get really mad. That's okay.”
“Here in a nutshell is why Google continues to get hyped by everyone including me (notice who I work for). Google surprises [sic] you. Delights you. Gives you what you want (not always, but more often than the other engines).”
“I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.”

Source : "Oren Peli: 'I'm not a nerd or a luddite, I'm a geek really'". Interview With Stuart O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2010.
“No individual can achieve worthy goals without accepting accountability for his or her own actions.”

Source : Dan Miller (2008). “No More Dreaded Mondays: Ignite Your Passion - and Other Revolutionary Ways to Discover Your True Calling at Work”, p.51, Crown Business
“That was a general impression that one got, that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was always flitting around the country and descending on some place in the Ozarks that she decided was disadvantaged, and announcing that something had to be done. And she had a very active social conscience, which I think in general is to her credit, although it tended, as many people thought, to just be overdone to the point where it gave rise to this crack that she regarded the whole world as one vast slum project”
“I was always told that I was too small, too skinny, too slow, not tough enough, and I never ever believed what people told me.”

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