"Unfortunately, our [american] workplace rules are stuck in the seventies, when, out of a block of 10 houses, in more than half of them the husband went to work and the wife stayed home. Now on that same block almost eight of the wives work. That's one reason why I want equal pay for equal work, and why affordable day care, early childhood education, and universal pre-K are so important to me."

-- Kirsten Gillibrand

#Husband Quotes #Block Quotes #Home Quotes

“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.”

Source : "Why We Need To Understand Science". The Skeptical Inquirer Vol. 14, Issue 3, www.csicop.org. Spring 1990.
“Two words to improve any dish. Ba, Con”
“There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.”
“The nightmare in every democracy, the very nightmare, is if it gets worse and worse and worse, we could end up totalitarian.”
“I remember getting to college and all of a sudden realizing that feminism was a dirty word to a lot of people and it was baffling to me. I would tell people that I was a feminist and they would look at me and go, "Why?" And that just made me feel more at home in those shoes.”
“Obviously we don't have 300 million people. We haven't got a big army. We don't have Hollywood. We're a medium small-sized country. We have to do what medium small-sized countries do, which-even though we're not smarter than other people-is to make ourselves seem to be smarter. We have to work harder and know more than other people.”
“I was forced to grow up quicker than most. I was forced to be a young man at a young age.”
“The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.”

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