Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports.


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A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the u...
JOAN DIDION
The Universe knows itself and expands itself through me.
JOAN BORYSENKO
Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended a...
JOAN DIDION
We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we share...
JOAN DIDION
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that ...
JOAN DIDION
According to my sister, the expert novelist Jackie Collins, most men stray. And sex doesn't mean any...
JOAN COLLINS
If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you...
JOAN SUTHERLAND
Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
JOAN BAEZ
The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organizat...
JOAN BAEZ
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
JOAN DIDION
I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all...
JOAN RIVERS
There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity, a lowered sexua...
JOAN DIDION
Death affords those who are left an opportunity to reevaluate everything. And though we would give a...
JOAN BORDOW
Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, How will I get off?
JOAN MANLEY
The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.
JOAN BAEZ
...the story of a man who saw three fellows laying bricks at a new building:
He approached the fi...
JOAN BORYSENKO
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect sp...
JOAN DIDION
My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.
JOAN RIVERS
Journalism has always existed in two different realities . . . the economic marketplace and [the] sp...
JOAN KONNER
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. W...
JOAN DIDION
Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from whi...
JOAN DIDION
If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
JOAN BAEZ
I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.
JOAN RIVERS
I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it.
JOAN DIDION
My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid f...
JOAN RIVERS
No woman has an abortion for fun.
JOAN SMITH
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw fro...
JOAN LUNDEN
To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.
JOAN KLEMPNER
Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to sh...
JOAN KIRNER
Even though everybody's lives are different, in general we're all human beings, and we go th...
JOAN JETT
The 325-foot Seagram Tower is the most southerly and closest to the Canadian falls and also affords ...
JOAN LINGARD
It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman.
JOAN CRAWFORD
I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11. I was due to leave the following Wednesday, so I just ...
JOAN DIDION
We aim to express the passion of our members in something actionable that we can all in fact do.
JOAN BLADES
All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.
JOAN CHEN
We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate...
JOAN DIDION
I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.
JOAN RIVERS
Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want...
JOAN JETT