The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.
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DIANE RAVITCH The poor chance of finding jobs at home is the main reason they're leaving.
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ERIC BRAEDEN The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN Migration is the story of my life: my parents and grandparents journeyed across four continents to f...
LEILA JANAH Sun shines on my back as I walk away
Sun shines on my chest and I return
The fall air is c...
BRENT M. JONES Women often are so focused on getting their jobs done well that they forget that building relationsh...
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continents, and the oceans was not ...
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GEORGIA WITKIN Having American refugees on American soil is heartbreaking, ... In Rhode Island and all across the c...
MATT BROWN I thought about the future, the oceans and continents he would cross, far away from everyone who kne...
LISA KLEYPAS There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or o...
ELMORE LEONARD Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or wor...
PHILIP GLASS The notion that women shouldn't care about personal success -- or the work that gets them there -- i...
SAMHITA MUKHOPADHYAY History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and ...
TANSY RAYNER ROBERTS Curvy African-American women were celebrated. These girls didn't experience anxiety and shame about ...
GAYLE BROOKS We believe that spying on American citizens for no good reason is fundamentally un-American, that it...
GERALD WEBER Philosophy is not just about talking or lecturing or even reading long, dense books. In fact, it is ...
RYAN HOLIDAY What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is li...
ISABEL WILKERSON the president didn't talk about manufacturing jobs. All he talked about was making the tax cuts perm...
TERRY MCAULIFFE Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had be...
KENZABURO OE We can all agree that no American should lose their life savings or their home because of illness or...
JUDD GREGG The dorms are very good when they go through the transition from living home to being on their own.
SAMUEL JACKSON I remember being in Japan when Destiny's Child put out 'Independent Women,' and women th...
BEYONCE KNOWLES Most of black America is in housing projects, without jobs, living on welfare. And this is not the c...
AUGUST WILSON Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR She's leaving home after living alone for so many years.
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VICKY ADIN Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of y...
TIM O'BRIEN That is the American story. People, just like you, following their passions, determined to meet the ...
BARACK OBAMA African-American history is not something that can be put on display solely during the month of Febr...
ROBERT HALL They were Catholic, my lovers,
All in an access of crossing themselves,
Partic...
SHAY CAROLINE In our quest to define and describe the world, we have crisscrossed the oceans and continents, compi...
ALAN HUFFMAN There is a sense of danger in leaving what you know, even if what you know isn’t much. These mill ...
JOHN WILLIAM TUOHY The whole notion of the nursing home was something dreamed up by people like my mother; American wom...
DAVID SEDARIS People who have good jobs in supportive workplaces are more committed. They're more loyal, they're m...
ELLEN GALINSKY The shortest path to more American jobs is more American energy and more jobs that relate to America...
ROY BLUNT History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs ...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY We were sick about that. Kerry Collins is not the fastest guy, first of all.
VONNIE HOLLIDAY There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers wit...
PARKER POSEY It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to cha...
AGNES MACPHAIL Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their nat...
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame t...
SPIRO T. AGNEW Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame ...
SPIRO T. AGNEW My own foundation concentrates on women's economic empowerment on the basis that if women have t...
CHERIE BLAIR Millions of American workers, in all sectors of the labor market, have seen their jobs and wages und...
DAN STEIN The real joke that history played on American women is not the one that makes people snigger, with c...
BETTY FRIEDAN It's generally about keeping their eyes and ears out for the kids getting home.
ELLIS REYES The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily ...
WILLIAM E. BORAH The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily l...
WILLIAM H. BORAH Plate tectonics is not all havoc and destruction. The slow movement of continents and ocean floors r...
SETH SHOSTAK In addition to balancing work and family, women need to think about their own health and their own w...
DANA HURST Yes, immigrants and immigration have been an important part of the American history. But they are no...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON We want to thank all World War II veterans, their families and the American people who supported the...
ED SOYSTER In any given month, a large number of workers are being hired or are leaving their current jobs, ill...
BEN BERNANKE There is no war on women. Women are doing well. But women are thoughtful. And what we in the Republi...
NIKKI HALEY History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? Histor...
ALAN BENNETT I'm so heartbroken that Sunnyside is closing. Mrs. Collins and Mrs. Ponder offered such a wonderful,...
ELLA RIOS Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison wit...
HAILE SELASSIE The American dream is still to own your home.
BARRY STERNLICHT This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundra...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT You have Dallas who's an All-American, you have an All-American closer in Gunderson, and you have Ni...
DAN SPENCER Some have lost their jobs, home and insurance. And all the while they have a child with a life-threa...
ALLISON SMITH We did research and found that our customers, with the cost of fuels and the cost of living being hi...
BRIAN OWENS American women are so fortunate. When I got married, all I wanted in the world was a dryer so I didn...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Now is as good a time as ever to revisit the history of the Crusades, or the sorry history of partit...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them ...
CHINUA ACHEBE Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all ...
MAYA ANGELOU Why are they living outside their own country? Jobs. This country has a huge want ads sign facing so...
ARMANDO VILLAREAL Indeed, Chicago seems to have literally sucked the air out of Springfield: another case of American ...
ROBERT D. KAPLAN I feel like the defense finally got to the point where they got tired of getting embarrassed on thei...
JAY JOYCE I don't like wars and fights and struggles. But that's all part of the American way. Scott and Stan ...
LYNNE SHUTTLEWORTH Daily life is an ongoing adaptation process of imprinting our memory’s storage center with useful ...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of wh...
TAYLOR KITSCH The Bush administration is the most diverse in history because the president fills jobs on the basis...
ALPHONSO JACKSON The records that I grew up listening to had feel, and the drummers that inspired me - like Stewart C...
TAYLOR HAWKINS The numbers really confirm that Californians want women and their families to make their own decisio...
KATIE DESMOND There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or o...
ELMORE LEONARD Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.
ADI ALSAID I have never talked to him about not leaving school, but the school has. I have talked to him about ...
KRISTIE BAKER It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving...
SCOTT WESTERFELD The general content of this program is the same for everyone. But the statistics and research I'll b...
EVAN LEVINE Leaving this earth is an easy thing to do, you just have to accept the fact that you are walking tow...
J. ORACOY More Americans own their home than ever before. Nearly 70 percent of American's are homeowners. ...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER Leaving American disaster victims to languish is morally reprehensible and un-American.
CEDRIC RICHMOND Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who succes...
ALICE WALKER Oakland is a very good team. Pete Hovland is a very good coach and they have quite a history of beat...
MATT GIANIODIS It's an individual taking a journey, that's the perspective. It happened here, but it could happen a...
ALAN COOKE When American workers are losing their jobs to people in other countries, Washington cannot afford t...
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GAIL GODWIN Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer ...
GAIL PARENT Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.
GAIL DEVERS I never really drank coffee in college, but now I'm on my feet all day and out all night and can...
GAIL SIMMONS In February 1991, I was rushed to the hospital in Los Angeles to have my feet amputated. Three years...
GAIL DEVERS I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a specta...
GAIL SIMMONS Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find ...
GAIL SHEEHY Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's ...
GAIL SHEEHY When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I...
GAIL KELLY Patience is the secret to good food.
GAIL SIMMONS I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not goin...
GAIL SHEEHY Eating a lot is an occupational hazard but it's a pretty great problem to have. I spend a lot of...
GAIL SIMMONS In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Pas...
GAIL SHEEHY I will not compare myself with others, nor them with me. I will appreciate myself and others for wha...
GAIL BLANKE There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they con...
GAIL GODWIN If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
GAIL SHEEHY