"Is the raggle-taggle Brangelina tribe any more bogus than that of the landlocked yummy mummy who believes that she can drop half a dozen brats and still keep a modest carbon footprint? I don't think so."

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Source : "Suffer little children? Give me a break" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2008.

Julie Burchill

#Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Yummy Quotes

“The first time I remember our being socially in the same place was after we graduated and [author, investment counselor, philanthropist, and fellow 1950s Yalie] Peter Wolf had a party at his house in the Hamptons.”
“All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say 'Yo Goober! Where's the meat?'. I'm trying to impress people here Lisa. You don't win friends with salad.”
“Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you canâ€™t measure something, you canâ€™t understand it. If you canâ€™t understand it, you canâ€™t control it. If you canâ€™t control it, you canâ€™t improve it.”
“Losing doesn't make me want to quit. It makes me want to fight that much harder.”
“That quality is what makes women great collaborators; we understand it's a team effort. Even if it comes from society telling us to be polite.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.”
“Every season of life has its compensations ...”
“Newspapers are horror happening to other people.”

Source : Nadine Gordimer (2013). “A Sport of Nature”, p.32, A&C Black

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