"American culture at large has failed working mothers."

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Source : Emily Matchar (2015). “Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

Emily Matchar

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“For the first time in history, sex is more dangerous than the cigarette afterward.”
“The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story.”

Source : Mary Ritter Beard, Nancy F. Cott (1991). “A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters”, p.19, Yale University Press
“What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine!”
“We will never agree to give up Jerusalem, a united city under Israeli sovereignty, and only Israeli. We will not accept a terrorist Palestinian state, we will not accept an agreement based on the 67 lines.”
“There have been periods in my life where I have experienced depression. It has been through some of my darkest moments that I have written some of my best songs. For me, singing and writing is very therapeutic. It's much more effective than taking Prozac!”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.”
“I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.”
“Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.”

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