Women should look at the different supports that are balancing out the table of their lives and ask themselves, 'What else can I add in?' You need to build that table back up.
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Related If you go back in Appalachian culture and you look at where families gathered, they gathered around ... BRIAN LEE You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on th... DANAI GURIRA God calls all of his children to the table. We can disagree and even say a lot of hateful things, bu... GENE ROBINSON There's that moment in which you look at what's come across the table and say, 'Ah ha.' This is goin... ERIC STONE I remember bringing some of my other friends to our table, and everyone at our table would look at t... ZACK GREINKE I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it'... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU We wanted to set up the table on behalf of the orphans and other Indians in need because of their pe... NIKKI CLIFTON I hope we can get back to what I call the kitchen table. Everyday issues that people are really worr... DICK GEPHARDT Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker ... SIMON BAKER Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powe... BEV PERDUE We are not passing values on to our children. We are not sitting down at the dinner table talking ab... LETITIA BALDRIGE We're two different players and we can bring two different things to the table. If we put that toget... UDONIS HASLEM The picketing is for informational purposes. We are, in fact, going to be back at the bargaining tab... LYNELLE JOLLEY We're getting ready to sit down at the table and have Thanksgiving, and there's people that ... GUY FIERI Secrets and lies… Everyone in the world deals with these every day of their lives. To protec... LACEY THORN What you see on TV is usually the final table, and things are different there, DENNIS PERRY The men and women in the Armed Forces, that's what I always think about and what I teach my kids... GUY FIERI In order to get somewhere in life, you need to have a vision. The vision brings you to the table. Wi... MICHAEL SCHENKER You're actually close. You just have to get back to the bargaining table, negotiate in good faith, c... GIL MCGOWAN Everybody around this table has been hurt (by canker). We need to look beyond the four corners of th... ANDY TAYLOR What I would ask the Democrat Party is to put your plan on the table, because most people agree with... JACK KINGSTON You never want to look in a mirror," Lula said. "Men love mirrors. They look at themselves doing the... JANET EVANOVICH The way I look at it, you've got to do what makes sense. I wouldn't take (any possibility) off the t... ERIC HYMAN We need to have a seat at the table because we are a major player. Somehow, over the next several we... FRANK SIFFRINN Also, there are seats in the diner that always fall off the table. If you have a scene where you'... DANNII MINOGUE If there is no question as to the legitimacy and legality of their operation, then everything ought ... GERALD SHUSTER Ask for the table you want. ANDREW DORNENBURG Families need to have a time when they can cook together. They can eat at the table and you can look... KAY ROBERTSON We're still very disappointed that after a week with students not in the classroom, that neither sid... TYLER CHARLEBOIS Mike Schur knows exactly what everything should look like but, at the same time, is super collaborat... D'ARCY CARDEN I am pleased that both sides have agreed to go back to the bargaining table, and I urge them to stay... ALEXIS HERMAN I would think they are setting their bargaining position high, so that when they sit at the table, t... GARY ROSS Look at the table and we're not in a healthy position, but we're not going to give up, EDDIE GRAY What we need to do is to see an immediate implementation of the Mitchell recommendations. But above ... SAEB ERAKAT We have reallocated out of bonds. We got a little bit nervous back in December. However, now that bo... ALAN KRAL Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek ou... RUSSELL HOBAN The one thing a creator can bring to the table when everybody else has all the money and power is ce... JOSS WHEDON But I am a knight of the Round Table," he protested, weakly. "I am a protector of the realm, a slaye... TANYA HUFF A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? ALBERT EINSTEIN A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy. ALBERT EINSTEIN Anyone who has any involvement with the child should be at the table and provide what is necessary t... GORDON JOHNSON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The owner would say to them 'You can go in the kitchen any time you want, but you got to eat back th... AGNES TEBO I hate homework. I hate it more now than I did when I was the one lugging textbooks and binders back... AYELET WALDMAN I’ll gloss right over the implication in what you said that the Reor are sentient entities—for n... G.S. JENNSEN Unfortunately, we don't have a metric defined that works out a ratio of how many stores to servers. ... DOUG HALL What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives. NAOMI CAMPBELL In a day and age where it seems like women want to be with unstable, psychotic, manipulative freaks;... C. JOYBELL C. You look at the standings now with the top teams at the top of the table and you look at us in last ... BRAD GUZAN Luigi, the restaurant manager, said to me once that he keeps that particular table for the Queen of ... EGON RONAY We have looked at everything on the table and cleared away what we don't need, JOSE MANUEL BARROSO He's another guy that we can throw in the mix. We'll take a good look at him. I think he throws very... SAM PERLOZZO I got up from my table and he sat down at my table, ... It's shocking, because he sat at my table an... JESSICA ALBA What's really cool about LEGOs is that you can put a bunch of bricks on the table, and everybody... CHRISTOPHER MILLER I didn't think they were going to let me leave there. They kept pushing my flight back. But when we ... KALIMBA EDWARDS As adults, we must ask more of our children than they know how to ask of themselves. What can we do ... DAWNA MARKOVA She walked around the edge of the table to position her next shot. As she pulled her cue back she wa... ERIN NICHOLAS If you can get everyone in the same room, around the same table at the same time, you can usually fi... HAL DAUB I threw it out at the table at Thanksgiving dinner, where our table was filled with people who had l... ANNE MILLING You folks need to put together what you're willing to put on the table, BILL KENNEDY Hopefully he'll ask good questions and listen carefully to the other leaders at the table so South C... JOE ERWIN Communities get out of this what they put in. I'm hoping if we can get the right people at the table... ELISSA MARSDEN I think that we can't deny the public's want for balancing out the images that are out there... CARRE OTIS I've seen a lot of good things and a lot of the bad of what Hollywood can bring. At the end of t... DREW SIDORA It is a total change in lifestyle, and something much needed. People tell me every day what a blessi... FRAN MIKUTA What I know now is that we're all interconnected and that's a really beautiful thing. We hav... JANE SEYMOUR He was at the defense table, and he fell out in the floor between the defense table and the bench wh... DUNCAN MCMILLAN What brought me back here was my players, ... I know who Rashard (Lewis) is. I know who Nick (Collis... RAY ALLEN My own foundation concentrates on women's economic empowerment on the basis that if women have t... CHERIE BLAIR I think they should focus on what is on the table, CHRISTOPHER HILL As an entrepreneur and mother, I support the need to put women at the center, recognizing their cruc... YELENA BATURINA What are you working on?" I ask. "The last page." He gestures towards the table, where a pencil... STEPHANIE PERKINS I can understand what they need to do. Their families are at risk. Their lives are at risk. I can un... JEFFREY SKILLING I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commit... P.D. JAMES It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Others have said it before me. If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the... ELIZABETH WARREN The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though... VANESSA KERRY If you look at all the things that are happening...if you add it up in any manner you want, what you... MASIPULA SITHOLE If you ask me, it's impossible to pick any of our four rookies as the best. All four guys bring some... JASON KENDALL It will change everything. We won't need governments and corporations. The very concepts our economi... VALIS UMBRA Those remarks were constructive, and we need to be having this discussion here at home. I am putting... RUSS FEINGOLD In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table. R. LEE ERMEY Now is the time when you see people which you know... but they start ignoring you... and how do you ... DEYTH BANGER We need the white business community at the table. BARBARA MAJOR One of the challenges is there are so many different groups jockeying for what is perceived to be a ... BRUCE HYDE He can run. He can catch the ball. He can do a lot of things that you anticipate a good back should ... HERMAN EDWARDS We need to give the taxpayers a seat at the table in this state. BILL SCRANTON I think that the most important thing we look for in partners is that they can help build companies ... DAVID SZE In addition to balancing work and family, women need to think about their own health and their own w... DANA HURST If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings f... SAM KEAN Quite bluntly, to an auto worker at General Motors or an airline worker facing demands for concessio... GARY CHAISON I vow that you shall always have a place by my hearth and meat and mead at my table, and pledge to a... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN They should look at what their weaknesses are and work on those. It's like a free chance to find out... CATHY WILLIAMS We've put offers on the table and there are players out there who are making up their minds and deci... RUSSELL GRAY With Strauss hitting number two and Schmid hitting number four [in the batting order], I hope for a ... KAREN BAIRD Their sincerity at the table is clearly in question, ... duplicitous. PETER ROBINSON I feel strongly about the need for diversity, and with good reason. I'm from a generation of wom... DENISE MORRISON Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can't ... MICHAEL ENDE I didn't want people sitting at the breakfast table breaking out into song. They are at the recordin... DES MCANUFF
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KAREN BENDER My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my s... KAREN BENDER When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmoth... KAREN BENDER Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud. KAREN BENDER What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up? KAREN BENDER My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but excit... KAREN BENDER It's great being married to a writer. You live with someone who can read your work and help you. KAREN BENDER I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' T... KAREN BENDER I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill. KAREN BENDER Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all ... KAREN BENDER Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got throu... KAREN BENDER Tell your mother that any clothes she wants to purchase you as a gift has to be suitable for a job i... KAREN BENDER Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the mi... KAREN BENDER The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund&... KAREN BENDER Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating. KAREN BENDER Don't monitor your online savings account in real time. KAREN BENDER Make pumpkin bread as the default gift for everyone. It is cheap, it is beloved, it is carbs. KAREN BENDER I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office. KAREN BASS My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and w... KAREN BASS I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive. KAREN BASS You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected officia... KAREN BASS When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them. KAREN BASS It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern. KAREN BASS