Gina Barreca Quotes

• Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.

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  Wine, Chocolate, Cheesy

  Gina Barreca (2009). “It's Not That I'm Bitter . . .: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World”, p.13, Macmillan

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• If you know you can do it - if you can already chart every day in your future - then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance.

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  Chance, Trouble, Your Future

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• How about "diamonds are a girl's best friends"? Nope. It should be switched around and pointed out, instead, that your best friends are diamonds.

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  Girl, Your Best Friend, Should

  Gina Barreca (2009). “It's Not That I'm Bitter . . .: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World”, p.67, St. Martin's Press

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• Piense en la anécdota más divertida de su vida. Lo más probable es que en su momento fuera algo horrible.

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  Thinking, Stories, Awful

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• La búsqueda de la verdad puede compararse a la de un gato que se persigue la cola: la persigue frenéticamente, pero su presa la elude; a pesar de que todo el mundo puede ver que está ahí, permanece fuera de su alcance. No puede poseerlo porque, paradójicamente, ya forma parte de ella.

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  Cat, Humor, Facts

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• We should remind ourselves that laughing together is as close as you can get to another person without touching, and sometimes it represents a closer tie than touching ever could.

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  Laughter, Ties, Laughing

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• Anger can offer a sense of indignity to replace a sense of shame, and offer a voice-raised above others-which can finally be heard. Those voices are most effective when they are raised in unison, when they have mercy as well as anger behind them, and when, instead of roaring at the anger of old pain, they sing about the glorious possibilities of a future where anger has a smaller house than hope.

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  Pain, Anger, Voice

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• I am constantly surprised that the simple word 'feminism' raises more eyebrows and initiates more sad-faced head-shaking than any elaborate stream of invective I have ever leveled at either the I.R.S. or the D.M.V.

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  Simple, Eyebrows, Feminism

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• Truth is like nuclear waste: it needs to be dealt with carefully. Sometimes it needs to be buried way, way out of town. And sometimes it should never be uncovered at all.

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  Needs, Nuclear, Way

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• Interestingly, anger and lust are also elusive states once they have passed. Trying to recall why you were angry about something when you've calmed down is like trying to remember why you were in love with someone who no longer attracts you: the initial impulse triggering the emotion is impossible to recapture.

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  Anger, Feelings, Lust

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• The people I work with are like family. I don't mean this in a nice way.

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  Buena, Mala, Gente

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• Birthdays are a reward for having shown up 365 days in a row. It's like getting a badge for attendance.

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  Attendance, Rewards, Badges

  Gina Barreca (2016). “"If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?": Questions and Thoughts for Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times”, p.41, St. Martin's Press

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• There are two kinds of people in the world: those who like what they like more than they don't like what they don't like and, in contrast, those who don't like what they don't like more than they like what they like.

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  Dos, Gente, Mundo

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• Envy is what makes you, when an acquaintance is lustily telling you that she's dating a Greek god of a guy, ask, 'Which one, Hades?'

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  Envy, Dating, Guy

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• My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop.

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  Looks, Body, Longing

  Gina Barreca (2009). “It's Not That I'm Bitter . . .: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World”, p.21, Macmillan

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• Tengo una relación íntima con los libros. Al fin y al cabo, me los llevo a la bañera, una invitación que no hago a la ligera.

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  Book, Reading, Intimate Relationships

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• Anger is the quintessential individual-signature emotion: I am what makes me mad.

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  Anger, Mad, Signatures

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• Reír juntos es lo más parecido a un abrazo sin tocarse.

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  Kissing, Laughing, Touching

  Gina Barreca (2013). “They Used to Call Me Snow White ... But I Drifted: Women's Strategic Use of Humor”, p.105, UPNE

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• ...hay un célebre aforismo que insiste en que la mejor manera de vivir es 'trabajar como si no necesitaras el dinero, bailar como si nadie te estuviera viendo y amar como si nunca te hubieran hecho daño'... Después de años escuchando y leyendo estas líneas he decidido decir la verdad: la versión original está equivocada. Hay un grave error en la redacción de este adagio. La versión correcta debería ser la siguiente Ama como si no necesitaras el dinero, Trabaja como si nadie estuviera mirando, Baila como si nunca te hubieran hecho daño. ¿Lo veis? ¿No tiene más sentido?

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  Hurt, Reading, Years

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• Aunque el miedo en la dosis adecuada y en la circunstancia adecuada nos protege... el miedo imaginario ofrece chalecos de fuerza en lugar de salvavidas, sogas en lugar de redes de seguridad.

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  Fear, Safety, Circumstances

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• Confessions are like tattoos in that 1) You convince yourself that the immediate pain of going through the process means it won't bother you later on; 2) They are permanent.

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  Tattoo, Pain, Mean

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• Fear looks both ways but still refuses to cross; fear looks twice and still doesn't leap. ... Fear usually arrives late, inevitably leaves early, and ends up never going out of town at all. Fear is the phantom hand on the back of the neck and the sound of a door opening downstairs when no one is coming home. ... Fear grows poor because it watches others gain wealth but cannot enter the fray; fear grows sick because it eats away at heath even as it fears its diminishment; fear grows old watching others live in ways that seem to threaten-but in reality only enhance-life.

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  Fear, Home, Reality

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• I personally translated the word 'vendetta' as Italian for 'What do you mean, "you want to see other women"?

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  Jealousy, Mean, Italian

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• Humor is a show of both strength and of vulnerability: you are willing to make the first move but you are trusting in the response of your listener.

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  Moving, Humor, Firsts

  Gina Barreca (2013). “They Used to Call Me Snow White ... But I Drifted: Women's Strategic Use of Humor”, p.201, UPNE

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• Having a lean and hungry look was frowned upon in my Italian neighborhood where a girl was considered too skinny if she could make her knees touch.

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  Girl, Italian, Looks

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