The demand that women "return to femininity" is a demand that the cultural gears shift into reverse, that we back up to a fabled time when everyone was richer, younger, more powerful.
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information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Demand is starting to pick up again, but it's not up that much. MARK WAGGONER If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a frien... CRAIG GROESCHEL That is a secular demographic shift, which is not going to reverse unless we close our doors and not... LAWRENCE HORAN It's a cultural shift. The idea that people only want to buy American is going away. DENNIS GALBRAITH It's definitely going to shift gears a lot, MIKE DIRNT I knew that was a demand that was probably going to be very difficult to meet. JERRY LEVIN When you juxtapose that with the apparent insensitivity of the demand curve, then what happens is th... JEFFREY RUBIN What we would like is that people will demand more. We're hoping to work together again. CARL HERRMAN His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING This oil shock could cause more damage to the industry than 9/11. 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SUSAN HAMPSHIRE If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more tree... SUSAN GEORGE The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured m... SUSAN SONTAG When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. SUSAN SARANDON In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have ... SUSAN WIGGS To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time. SUSAN SONTAG I always try to avoid looking at the section where my books would be shelved, but I do know that my ... SUSAN CHOI