"When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition."

-- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#Bad Ass Quotes #Men Quotes #Tragedy Quotes

“The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.”
“It's true that I wouldn't have written the first book had my sister and mother been alive. It was my way of continuing our conversation. It's also this Jewish thing of naming and remembering people, and I think there is a sense of keeping that side of life going.”
“Loving words and deeds are the best alms.”
“Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.”

Source : Source: www.seventeen.com
“Hi. I'm Rachel Trachtenburg. I'm the daughter and the drummer for the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players.”

Source : "Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off and on Broadway". Music, Documentary, 2006.
“Keep an open heart. We are wired to find love.”

Source : "Finding and Keeping the Love of Your Life". www.oprah.com. February 2009.
“Because there is nothing I would rather do than rummage through bookshops, I went at once to Hastings & Sons Bookshop upon receiving your letter. I have gone to them for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn't known I wanted.”

Source : Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.13, A&C Black
“I'm not quite sure. Probably because "Hanky Panky" and "I Think We're Alone Now" had more to do with it than anything else. For some reason, staccato eighth notes on a bass sounded like bubblegum. Basically, groups like the 1910 Fruitgum Co. took my early format and kind of perverted it, and made these mindless pre-fab hits over and over. In the 60s, anybody who was making commercial music, that is music that didn't have a political slant to it, or wasn't taking drugs, was bubblegum. And that term kind of hung on a lot of people back then, and it's unfortunate.”

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