#cat

Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers. ↗

— James Wolcott

#being #bill #catholic #children #collectors

It isn't that NPR is matriarchal but that it has dedicated itself to not being patriarchal in its outlook and presentation, stipulating from the outset that its headline voices would not resound across the fruited plains from big male bags of air sent from Mount Olympus. ↗

— James Wolcott

#air #bags #being #big #dedicated

Whenever I catch a chunk of an Adam Sandler comedy on cable, it looks as badly shot and goofily tossed off as a Jerry Lewis gag reel once he hit the late downslide with 'Hardly Working' and 'Cracking Up.' ↗

— James Wolcott

#adam sandler #badly #cable #catch #chunk

Online publication is fine with me, in part because I hope to collect those stories later. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

#collect #fine #hope #i #later

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#communicate #everything #first #first of all #joy

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#educated #great #live #manners #men

I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was. ↗

— Natalie Wood

#i #people #said #think #used

I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on. ↗

— Victoria Wood

#certificate #degree #diving #does #evenings

In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television. ↗

— Victoria Wood

#day #education #just #off #picked

Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system. ↗

— Victoria Wood

#education #element #every #life #music