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  • Besides, I'd heard too many Karen Carpenter tales at Gladstone PTA meetings, and they often took the form of boasts. The prestigious diagnosis of anorexia seemed much coveted not only by the students but by their mothers, who would compete over whose daughter ate less. No wonder the poor girls were a mess.

    Girl   Daughter   Mother  
    Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.301, Counterpoint Press
  • You'll fold faster than Superman on laundry day

    Laundry   Faster   Pta  
  • When I think about directing a film, the thing that stops me short is wondering if I'm a natural at it the way I think you, and PTA, and Fincher are born directors. Maybe some people's talent is in understanding the ways that film communicates, without dialogue, without plot.

    Interview with Bennett Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2014.
  • If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way.

    Jobs   Half   Way  
  • Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.

    Lorna Luft (1999). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.313, Simon and Schuster
  • The work-life balance is a harsh reality for so many women, who are forced every day to make impossible choices. Do they take their kids to the doctor...and risk getting fired? Do they work weekends so they can afford to send their kids to better childcare...even though it means even less time with their families? Do they take another shift at work, so they can pay for piano lessons for their kids...even though it means they have to stop volunteering for the PTA? It just shouldn't be this difficult to raise healthy families.

    Mean   Kids   Weekend  
  • I was just your average hockey mom, and signed up for the PTA because I wanted to make my kids' public education better.

    Mom   Kids   Hockey  
    Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota
  • I cannot admit this out loud. In the first place, we are expected to be supermoms these days, instead of admitting that we have flaws. It is tempting to believe that all mothers wake up feeling fresh every morning, never raise their voices, only cook with organic food, and are equally at ease with the CEO and the PTA.

    Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.178, Simon and Schuster
  • Here's a news flash for the ladies: for every one of you who thinks we all want a girl like Angelina Jolie, all skinny elbows and angles, the truth is, we'd rather curl up with someone like Charlotte - a woman who's soft when a guy wraps his arms around her; a woman who might have a smear of flour on her shirt the whole day and not notice or care, not even when she goes out to meet with the PTA; a woman who doesn't feel like an exotic vacation but is the home we can't wait to come back to.

    Girl   Women   Home  
    Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.97, Simon and Schuster
  • I know I'm missing something, but those who have children are missing what I get to do. And frankly, I'm probably missing more of what I don't want than what I do. Some may call me selfish or narcissistic, but I don't want to spend my time going to PTA meetings. The only way I could have children and do the work I do is to have a househusband - and I'm not attracted to a househusband. I'd rather affect children with the work I do.

  • Modern women - we're very good at keeping ourselves busy. There are PTA meetings, exercising, bake sales at school. I like that my life is not the same every day.

  • Fifteen years ago I knew I had to settle into being a mom and give them a normal life, which I never had. I was always traveling. I had tours. I wanted my kids to settle down, and we kind of did it together.... It was a bumpy transition. There was no director telling me what to do. No script, but I really enjoyed it. I even became president of the PTA. Doing the laundry was a meditative experience. Now, when I start to get nervous and stressed, I go in and start to fold towels.

    Mom   Kids   Years  
  • Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.

    Kids   Artist   Alaska  
  • What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.

    Girl   Teenage   White  
  • One person can make a difference.

  • My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.

    Vernon Jordan (2009). “Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir”, p.30, PublicAffairs
  • If a theology student in lowa should get up at a PTA luncheon in Sioux City and attack the President's military policy, my guess is that you would probably find it reported somewhere the next morning in the New York Times. But when 300 Congressmen endorse the President's policy, the next morning it is apparently not considered news fit to print.

  • The things that hold women back, hold them back from sitting at the boardroom table and they hold women back from speaking at the PTA meeting.

    Work   Women   Careers  
  • I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London.

    Kids   School   London  
    "Auditions are hell, but I never thought that I would have to go through 'casting' to get on Newsnight - and fail" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2006.
  • Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal.

    White   Tuna   Would Be  
    Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.31, Macmillan
  • I don't want to say anything about my kids...but I go to PTA meetings under an assumed name!

    Family   Kids   Names  
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