The history of American
The history of American women is all about leaving home – crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own. Gail Collins
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The history of American women is all about leaving home – crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own. Gail Collins
What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a little untrue, just enough to throw the world off-kilter? It’s like leaving the train at the wrong stop: You are still you, but in a new place, there by accident or grace, and … Read more
Win walked over to me. He held out his palm. In the middle of it was a single black sequin from the dress Scarlet had lent me. You lost this, he said. I giggled, slightly embarrassed to be leaving bits of myself behind. I’m shedding. Gabrielle Zevin
Anxiety is so pervasive in my work, it’s like it’s not even a thing because it’s always there. Like air. I have to work through a layer of anxiety to get to anything else. It’s embarrassing to me when people point out to me all the anxiety I portray in my work. I don’t ever … Read more
I complain about my life. I used to complain about boys or not being able to drive or failing a test. Now I complain about boys, not being able to drive, and leaving home so much. Gabourey Sidibe
A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value. G. H. Hardy
I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search for it hopelessly, as ghosts are said to do, frequenting the spots where they buried material treasures without which they cannot pay their way to the nether world. Evelyn Waugh
(Peace!) Piece of what? You can’t mean P-E-A-C-E Cause I’ve seen people on the streets Shoot the next man and turn around and say ‘peace.’ But that’s leaving people in pieces It’s not what the meaning of peace is. Extra P
I was a young feminist in the ’70s. Feminism saved my life. It gave me a life. But I saw how so much of what people were saying was not matching up with what they were doing. For example, we were talking about sister solidarity, and women were putting each other down. We were talking … Read more
I believe the ones who stand up for what we say, which is stay inside the Eurozone, try to fix some things in the memorandum and try to help Greece get out of this mess without leaving the Eurozone, without leaving Europe. Eva Kaili