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Patricia Polacco

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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name ...
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Everyone thinks that 'Chinatown' is the best screenplay. I'm not sure it is.
PATRICIA MARX
For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
PATRICIA MARX
I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and se...
PATRICIA MARX
I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.
PATRICIA MARX
Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.
PATRICIA MARX
The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism.
PATRICIA MARX
It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even fiv...
PATRICIA MARX
Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of ...
PATRICIA MARX
Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists cl...
PATRICIA MARX
'Couch surfing' refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of char...
PATRICIA MARX
Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's ...
PATRICIA MARX
One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels ...
PATRICIA MARX
New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just bec...
PATRICIA MARX
Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, wha...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say,...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and b...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended fam...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose thin...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I do...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
I always doubted myself. I doubted the way I looked, my body, my voice - everything.
PATRICIA KAAS
When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
PATRICIA KAAS
People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
PATRICIA KAAS
When you are 25 or even 30, you can just do things. When you get to 35, things are different. Time i...
PATRICIA KAAS
I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after,...
PATRICIA KAAS
Sometimes, I wake up and the skies are grey and everything's horrible.
PATRICIA KAAS
Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our ent...
PATRICIA IRELAND
And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fac...
PATRICIA IRELAND
We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would...
PATRICIA IRELAND
We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the ...
PATRICIA IRELAND
We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets reall...
PATRICIA IRELAND
They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney...
PATRICIA IRELAND
Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would ...
PATRICIA IRELAND
I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so m...
PATRICIA IRELAND
Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
PATRICIA IRELAND
My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. T...
PATRICIA IRELAND
I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to lead...
PATRICIA IRELAND
The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statis...
PATRICIA IRELAND
Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of pri...
PATRICIA IRELAND
I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence agai...
PATRICIA IRELAND
Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight ...
PATRICIA IRELAND
The Young Women's Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the sa...
PATRICIA IRELAND
Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent att...
PATRICIA IRELAND
The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to t...
PATRICIA IRELAND
The way to be a man if you're a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around.
PATRICIA IRELAND