Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends church school church activities. All my friends weren't allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio so I didn't really know anything different. That's how I was raised.
If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.
Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?
I've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't still married to somebody else.
I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage children and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked you didn't crash you didn't throw up you weren't late you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
I hate to mention age but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.
What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.