Nobody believes that the man who says, 'Look, lady, you wanted equality,' to explain why he won't give up his seat to a pregnant woman carrying three grocery bags, a briefcase, and a toddler is seized with the symbolism of idealism.


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You become an expert by working hard. We've got fantastic museums, collections and antique shows...
JUDITH MILLER
Junk stands and antique markets are the perfect place to pick up clues about the history of a countr...
JUDITH MILLER
When one set of Jews labels another set of Jews 'anti-Semitic,' they are trying to monopoliz...
JUDITH BUTLER
Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis ...
JUDITH BUTLER
Dealers always like to sell chairs in sets of four, six, or eight. And they charge a premium for sup...
JUDITH MILLER
To search is more blessed than to find, Gissler thinks.
JUDITH SCHALANSKY
I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reade...
JUDITH VIORST
The modern designers are quite showy, and a lot of the young people really like it. Costume jewelry ...
JUDITH MILLER
Kids need to encounter kids like themselves - kids who can sometimes be crabby and fresh and rebelli...
JUDITH VIORST
There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cu...
JUDITH BUTLER
So much of our fictional medievalism is distorted through a lens of Protestantism and the Reformatio...
JUDITH TARR
There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which ...
JUDITH BUTLER
The purpose of it is to be a community building event.
JUDITH ANDERSON
There's been some conflict with old-time ranchers being engulfed with new development.
JUDITH ANDERSON
Personally I believe it is important for mankind to respect nature - for homeostasis - and I have vo...
JUDITH ANDERSON
I am inspired by many mediums and use them to express varied aspects of my philosophies and life obs...
JUDITH ANDERSON
All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allow...
JUDITH ANDERSON
This technique requires both sides of your brain -- analytical and creative.
JUDITH ANDERSON
Innovation, creativity, and enthusiasm are all linked. When you walk into a warehouse and the manage...
JUDITH ANDERSON
Understanding Hamas/Hezbollah as social movements that are progressive, that are on the left, that a...
JUDITH BUTLER
When I do uptempo songs, I like to bring in the funk and world music and different elements.
JUDITH HILL
Victorian racehorse owners frequently named their horses after murderers. That was so astonishing. C...
JUDITH FLANDERS
On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something th...
JUDITH KRANTZ
There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart
JUDITH ANDERSON
Looking at you has been my favorite pastime from the moment you asked me to describe your face," he ...
JUDITH MCNAUGHT
No letter from a lover is ever more welcome, brings more joy, than a publisher's expression of inter...
JUDITH BROCKLEHURST
A young lady who faints may awake chivalrous sentiments in gentleman; a young lady who weeps engende...
JUDITH BROCKLEHURST
The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundament...
JUDITH HAYES
One of the things that made Epic strong when I wrote the original code was that it never occurred to...
JUDITH FAULKNER
The more facts one introduces, the more truth one shows, the more determined the bigot is to cling t...
JUDITH TARR
You are about to begin the hero's journey. Travel well on the quest. A life of More is your birthrig...
JUDITH WRIGHT
He had led off being a perfectionist when he discovered that not promptly kept appointments, not a h...
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
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
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
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
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