Yes, the United States is still the great meritocracy it's always been; but now, if you aren't brilliant or beautiful or both, there isn't much to do, because they can do it cheaper in Shanghai or Mumbai.


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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pock...
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to ...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER
It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA
The lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook are unparalleled natural treasures with some of the high...
ELIZABETH ESTY
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
ELIZABETH DREW
Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
ELIZABETH DREW
My God, I have so much bounty in my life.
ELIZABETH MARVEL
We have the opportunity and the responsibility to lead our country to a better and brighter future, ...
ELIZABETH ESTY
I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
It's not the having, it's the getting.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scrip...
ELIZABETH WARREN
I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exa...
ELIZABETH STROUT
I feel like I don't understand time in novels, really. I bumble forward, is all.
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN
Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.
ELIZABETH MOON
My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
ELIZABETH MOON
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You ca...
ELIZABETH EDWARDS
Some of these biggest financial institutions are out there trading in commodities. They're buyin...
ELIZABETH WARREN
The federal government secures the border; Californians decide how we want to treat our population. ...
ELIZABETH EMKEN
I don't connect to a certain girliness or talking about girly things - I feel unauthentic and un...
ELIZABETH REASER
The most dangerous cancer cells are actually the ones that are more like stem cells, which have this...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN
We and other groups are seeing clear statistical links between telomere shortness and risk for a var...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN
The broken consumer credit market had to be repaired by making sure that consumers had the right inf...
ELIZABETH WARREN
Clearly, we are courting tragedy by turning a blind eye to marketing gimmicks plainly intended to tu...
ELIZABETH ESTY
I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting ro...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER
The continent did not appeal: France was filled with irritating people; Spain was corrupt and unstab...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got ask...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY
Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body im...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY
I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say.
ELIZABETH GASKELL
The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
ELIZABETH DREW
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in...
ELIZABETH DREW
As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive...
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA
To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
ELIZABETH GASKELL
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK
I have children, and this notion - that there might be a single book that introduces children to lit...
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN
Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via ...
ELIZABETH GASKELL
I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.
ELIZABETH GASKELL
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngster...
ELIZABETH II
If we could simply live in the light of our bodies being temples of the Holy Spirit, our daily life ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE
Hardly anyone understands the principles behind magic,"scoffed Betony. "It's too difficult.
ELIZABETH KAY
perhaps,thought Felix,that's what magic is--physics with a different twist to it.
my world just...
ELIZABETH KAY
You're not standing on your head! Have a cookie. - Grimspite in Jinx on the Divide
ELIZABETH KAY
Breast cancer is being detected at an earlier, more treatable stage these days, largely because wome...
ELIZABETH HURLEY
Minds ripen at very different ages.
ELIZABETH MONTAGU
My two big date deal breakers are someone with no sense of humor and someone who chews badly. I will...
ELIZABETH GILLIES
You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR