He leaned forward and opened his door, politely standing aside to let me by before following me in. There are some advantages to dating a guy from another era, I thought. Though I am a big believer in gender equality, chivalry scores high in my book.


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Your true life is the one that would be the greatest gift you could give to others.
AMY MCTEAR
Frugality without creativity is deprivation.
AMY DACYCZYN
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the wor...
AMY LOWELL
Memory feeds imagination.
AMY TAN
You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!
AMY TAN
Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it ...
AMY LEE
I don't think it should be a surprise when we're talking about energy and trying to have mor...
AMY KLOBUCHAR
I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance a...
AMY KLOBUCHAR
There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have...
AMY LEE
Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's n...
AMY LEE
When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8...
AMY ROBACH
I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried pr...
AMY WALDMAN
I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had w...
AMY CHUA
Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me th...
AMY WALDMAN
I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at al...
AMY POEHLER
I was on my death bed, and I remember hanging on to these words, 'Don't be scared. You are g...
AMY PURDY
When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. ...
AMY POEHLER
The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins a...
AMY LEE
In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In Amer...
AMY CHUA
At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing a...
AMY TAN
Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, tra...
AMY CHUA
I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, st...
AMY POEHLER
I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.
AMY WINEHOUSE
Pfizer's actually teamed up with my nonprofit organization, which is called Adaptive Action Spor...
AMY PURDY
After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on ...
AMY PURDY
Tina Fey and I have 15 things in development: 'Laverne and Shirley', 'Starsky and Hutch ...
AMY POEHLER
Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't tr...
AMY POEHLER
When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accuse...
AMY ADAMS
I've always hated the way Hollywood has portrayed accountants. They're always little nerd ba...
AMY HECKERLING
I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don...
AMY GRANT
When I go on holiday, I wear wedges. They accentuate your leg, honey, and you have to look good on t...
AMY CHILDS
Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This lo...
AMY TAN
We can stop the cycle of animal homelessness and save lives by opening our hearts and homes to a lov...
AMY JACKSON
Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappines...
AMY CHUA
I just don't do the treadmill; I hate that. I do Pilates and yoga. I've recently joined aeri...
AMY JACKSON
Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a...
AMY TAN
I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, ...
AMY POEHLER
I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my...
AMY SEDARIS
As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other peop...
AMY POEHLER
When you read about the lives of other people, people of different circumstances or similar circumst...
AMY TAN
People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.&...
AMY TAN
My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was ...
AMY TAN
It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
AMY TAN
I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what ...
AMY TAN
I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of ...
AMY TAN