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"The aphorism "If you want something done, ask a busy woman" is in direct acknowledgment of the efficiency boot camp parenthood puts you through."
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"A day should be your controlling and managing factor."

"For you to maximize time, you want to make sure that every second of the day that comes is converted into some products."

"A small sharp axe clears a forest quicker than a big blunt one."

"Institutions have processes favoring efficiency over loss, and process over people."

"If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes."

"Proper and effective time management is the best way to make it in life."

"Recognition of the value of time, the change in our attitude to time, time management and time consciousness translate into economic growth or increase in GDP."

"To be productive, you must convert every minute of your time."

"You can leverage time by using it wisely and purposefully."

"Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it."
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"The actual handbag is neither here nor there-- it's what you keep in it that's the most important thing."

"For a woman, every outfit is a hopeful spell, cast to influence the outcome of the day. An act of trying to predict your fate, like looking at your horoscope."

"After all, you can argue " argue until you cry " about whatmodern, codified misogyny is; but straight-up ungentlemanliness,of the kind his mother would clatter the back of his head for, isinarguable. It doesn't need to be a 'man vs woman' thing. It's just atiff between The Guys.Seeing the whole world as 'The Guys' is important. The ideathat we're all, at the end of the day, just a bunch of well-meaningschlumps, trying to get along, is the basic alpha and omega of myworld view. I'm neither 'pro-women' nor 'antimen'. I'm just 'Thumbsup for the six billion'."

"You stop talking about things when you've worked them out. You're no longer an observer but a participant. You're too busy for this bullshit."

"Because this injunction for all women to have children isn't in any way logical. If you take a moment to consider the state of the world, the thing you notice is that there are plenty of babies being born; the planet really doesn't need all of us to produce more babies."

"In the end, I go where I always go when I need information on something baffling, poisonous, or terrifying: the library."

"Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term. We need more women who are allowed to prove their worth as people; rather than being assessed merely for their potential to create new people. After all, half those new people we go on to create are also women - presumably themselves to be judged, in their futures, for not making new people. And so it will go on and on..."

"The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it."

"A self-made man" - not of woman born but alchemized, through sheer force of will, by the man himself. This is what I want to be. I want to be a self-made woman. I want to conjure myself out of every sparkling, fast moving thing I can see. I want to be the creator of myself. I'm going to begat myself."
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