For Africa to me ... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows ex...actly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She isn't harassed. She's busy, and it's glamorous to be busy. Indeed, the image of the on- the-go working mother is very like the... glamorous image of the busy top executive. The scarcity of the working mother's time seems like the scarcity of the top executive's time.... The analogy between the busy working mother and the busy top executive obscures the wage gap between them at work, and their different amounts of backstage support at home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I guess what I've really discovered is the humanizing effect of children in my life--stretching me, humbling me. Maybe my thighs a...ren't as thin as they used to be. Maybe my getaways aren't as glamorous. Still I like the woman that motherhood has helped me to become.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Smoking ... is downright dangerous. Most people who smoke will eventually contract a fatal disease and die. But they don't brag ab...out it, do they? Most people who ski, play professional football or drive race cars, will not die--at least not in the act--and yet they are the ones with the glamorous images, the expensive equipment and the mythic proportions. Why this should be I cannot say, unless it is simply that the average American does not know a daredevil when he sees one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The menopause is probably the least glamorous topic imaginable; and this is interesting, because it is one of the very few topics ...to which cling some shreds and remnants of taboo. A serious mention of menopause is usually met with uneasy silence; a sneering reference to it is usually met with relieved sniggers. Both the silence and the sniggering are pretty sure indications of taboo.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to ...end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There's no such thing as life; or if there is, It is faster than the weather, faster than... Any character. It is more than any scene: Of the guillotine or of any glamorous hanging.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... in ordinary fiction, movies, etc. everything is smoothed out to seem plausible--villains made bad, heroes splendid, heroines g...lamorous, and so on, so that no one believes a word of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »