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Employees that are stubborn, defensive, angry? Yeah, that's the name of the game in my world.


Karen Ostrov

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KAREN KAIN Friday night is our date night. We really carve out time for each other.
KAREN KAIN The facts are on our side.
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KAREN HESSE In life, sometimes you just lose.
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KAREN HANDEL I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married,...
KAREN HANDEL I will ensure the conservative legacy and leadership of Tom Price, Johnny Isakson, and Newt Gingrich...
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KAREN HANDEL Sometimes you should just put down the computer, the phone, and walk away.
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KAREN HANDEL I'm proud of the fact that I was able to overcome long odds.
KAREN HANDEL Others do not define you - you define yourself through your words and actions.
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KAREN HANDEL I'm a girl: that means I fight like a girl. And there ain't nothing meaner.
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KAREN HANDEL I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.
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KAREN HANDEL We need to lift up the nation so we can find a more civil way to deal with our disagreements because...
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KAREN FINERMAN Every day, turn off your phone/email for some part of the day.
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KAREN BLIXEN I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.
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KAREN BLACK I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.
KAREN BLACK I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little...
KAREN BLACK I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dea...
KAREN BLACK I love playing strong women, even if they're nuts.
KAREN BLACK If you can write it, I can be it.
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KAREN BENDER At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in peop...
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KAREN BENDER My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my s...
KAREN BENDER When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmoth...
KAREN BENDER Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
KAREN BENDER What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?
KAREN BENDER My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but excit...
KAREN BENDER It's great being married to a writer. You live with someone who can read your work and help you.
KAREN BENDER I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' T...
KAREN BENDER I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
KAREN BENDER Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all ...
KAREN BENDER Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got throu...
KAREN BENDER Tell your mother that any clothes she wants to purchase you as a gift has to be suitable for a job i...
KAREN BENDER Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the mi...
KAREN BENDER The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund&...
KAREN BENDER Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
KAREN BENDER Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.
KAREN BENDER Make pumpkin bread as the default gift for everyone. It is cheap, it is beloved, it is carbs.
KAREN BENDER I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.
KAREN BASS My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and w...
KAREN BASS I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.
KAREN BASS You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected officia...
KAREN BASS When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
KAREN BASS It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.
KAREN BASS All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of ...
KAREN ARMSTRONG