"It strikes me that whatever advantages there are to being a boy--getting to stay out late and having other people wash your clothes and bring you plates of stuff--get undercut by having to play football."

-- Mary Karr

#Football Quotes #Boys Quotes #Play Quotes

“My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.”
“The bigger the dream, the more important to the team.”
“Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.”
“Seeing creates growth.”
“Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.”
“I'm not jealous in traditional ways - of boyfriends or babies or bank accounts - but I do covet other women's styles of being.”
“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
“It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move.”

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