#professions

What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#american writers #been #breakthroughs #continuity #did

No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#afflicts #ages #classes #immune #people

Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#died #forward #god #leaders #only

Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#building #deeply #into #north #north america

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all. ↗

— Betty Friedan

#compete #copying #either #handicapped #handicaps

In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions. ↗

— Rhys Ifans

#professions #singing #skills #storytelling #wales

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions. ↗

— John Morley

#deceiving #literature #most #professions #seductive

When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to-it leaves nothing. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#disinclined #eliminate #feel #financial #i

While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#certainly #earnings #equivalent #gap #great

Manufacturing and other unskilled professions that were union jobs, that allowed people to live a middle-class life, are disappearing both because unions are disappearing and because of the global nature of the economy. ↗

— Andy Stern

#because #both #disappearing #economy #global