#career

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#about #ago #brash #career #century

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#career #ever #feel #fundamentally #game

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career - anything for a laugh. ↗

— Bob Uecker

#anything #career #did #i #ignorant

I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment. ↗

— Gail Devers

#career #country #disappointment #gold #gold medals

Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#capable #career #days #doing #emotionally

Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the women's movement was taking off. Ours was the first prime-time one-hour show featuring a strong, professional woman. It paved the way for other series to follow. ↗

— Angie Dickinson

#career #featuring #first #follow #had

It's difficult for me to meet women because my crowd is much older. I know that for some of the young women I do meet, a relationship with me can be envisioned as a benefit to their career. ↗

— Michael Douglas

#benefit #career #crowd #difficult #envisioned

It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#career #decided #how #i #move

Fairly early in my career, I had a passion for wine just as a consumer, and I started to learn about the whole process, starting with a piece of raw ground, and ending up with a work of art in a bottle. ↗

— Drew Bledsoe

#art #bottle #career #consumer #early

I had a great career and I enjoyed all of it, with the exception of losing. ↗

— Drew Bledsoe

#enjoyed #exception #great #great career #had