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My daughter Gabby very kindly once said that she thinks I was a better mother because I was doing a job I loved. I now think guilt is a universal part of being a mother. I used to think it was Jewish-mother guilt but now I think it is working-mother guilt. ”
I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people. ”
I've always been about the power of a woman - accentuating the positive, deleting the negative, whether you're talking her body, her voice or her leadership. ”
I enjoy politics, but if I had a third career - and I've had multiple careers - my third act would be acting. ”
Ask any worker at Starbucks, Cosi, McDonald's or Walmart, 'How many jobs do you have?' and likely he or she will tell you: 'Two.' I know colleagues who've had breakfast at one store, and gone to lunch in another, only to find the same person waiting on them. ”
We have done a poor job educating people about education. Only when we have clarified that can we talk about how best to achieve it. ”
The human world is a long way from meeting the needs of the present, and it is borrowing massively from the future - not only by piling up money debt, but also by degrading the resources from which all real wealth ultimately comes. ”
Growth is a stupid goal. So, by the way, is no-growth. ”
Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals. ”
It wasn't a typical 'Let's go play catch in the backyard' sort of father-son relationship. We always went to job sites with him. ”