Let's not freak out here," Jett said, ever the diplomat in venom green nail polish and little skull earrings. "People aren't going to come until they've had their dinner. Pie is for dessert." Maggie and I stood behind the counter, arms folded, and stared out the display window. Jett shook her head. Leave it to her to be remarkably upbeat while the rest of us were uncharacteristically morose. "Maybe we should open up so that this wonderful pie aroma brings them in," she said brightly. She opened the door and used it to fan the pie air out onto the street. And it worked. Somebody walked in.
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JUDITH GUEST The great thing about costume jewelry is that there's something for everyone - there are very hu... JUDITH MILLER I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian th... JUDITH BUTLER Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment ... JUDITH BUTLER Rawn did her own thing in her own way. She cast the female gaze on a genre heavy with all-male quest... JUDITH TARR It frustrates me about myself when I see I'm not taking the road that demands more of me. JUDITH LIGHT It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. JUDITH MARTIN My Girl Scout leader. She told me if I listened more and talked less, I could grow up to be a good w... JUDITH VIORST I was an undergrad math major and a grad student in computer science. I'm hugely introverted, no... JUDITH FAULKNER As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part ... JUDITH WRIGHT Maybe it's a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I ... JUDITH JAMISON I heard directly from my source that I should testify before the grand jury, JUDITH MILLER Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and... JUDITH BUTLER Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You... JUDITH MARTIN I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry lev... JUDITH KRANTZ If judged only by the results that challenge the laws of probabilities, then the power of prayer is ... JUDITH HAYES My mother was a huge, huge reader. I think I picked up very early how precious it was to write thing... JUDITH VIORST Some of his comments suggested insubordination on my part. I have always written the articles assign... JUDITH MILLER I started buying bits of broken porcelain. I furnished our first flat with pieces of 'junk.'... JUDITH MILLER Obama was late to affirm the Egyptian revolution as a democratic movement, and even then he was eage... JUDITH BUTLER Without Mark Felt there would have been none of the revelations that showed what began as a third-ra... JUDITH MILLER Etiquette is all human social behavior. If you're a hermit on a mountain, you don't have to ... JUDITH MARTIN Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by eti... JUDITH MARTIN As a Jew, I was taught that it was ethically imperative to speak up and to speak out against arbitra... JUDITH BUTLER Why is it that almost every human culture yet discovered has found it necessary to believe in an aft... JUDITH HAYES I am a traditionalist, and I'm an innovator. Most of what I do is to weigh change and legislate ... JUDITH MARTIN The message of transformation and how we all can live from our heart, not just from our head, was a ... JUDITH LIGHT Identifying Israel with Jewry obscures the existence of the small but important post-Zionist movemen... JUDITH BUTLER This was the invention of modern American philanthropy as we know it. The idea of systematizing givi... JUDITH RODIN People don't remember me for how high my legs went, even though they went up very high, and how ... JUDITH JAMISON A rebel. That was me when I was younger. What was a rebel from New Jersey? A rebel was moving to the... JUDITH VIORST I grew very skeptical of certain kind of Jewish separatism in my youth. I mean, I saw the Jewish com... JUDITH BUTLER My idea for the Jamison Project was rather like a pickup company. The idea was to give the dancers a... JUDITH JAMISON According to my interview notes, though, it appears that Mr. Libby said little more than that the as... JUDITH MILLER In that case, we just build ingredients and recipes from the region. JUDITH BERGER It's the ill-informed that lash out. They get it off their chests. We have found the best way is not... JUDITH YOUNG Transfer of title has been completed, the Island corridor is now Island-owned and it's connecting co... JUDITH SAYERS To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to possess a guiding principle. A belief ... JUDITH GUEST The principle of academic freedom is designed to make sure that powers outside the university, inclu... JUDITH BUTLER