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| cd786b0 | As I rode down the street with him to see what he'd bought, I was in shock when he pulled up in front of this tiny white box of a house. I mean --maybe eight hundred square feet. There was no cute front porch. The yard--front and back--was all weeds and overgrown bushes. When he opened the front door on that cabin-size house, I could see it hadn't been touched in thirty years. She cried. Again. That was sort of her thing during year one. I.. | Joanna Gaines | ||
| 49ea685 | Then one day Chip showed up with the back of his pickup truck just loaded with old metal letters he'd found at a flea market--big, oddly shaped letters taken from various old signs. They were mismatched and rusty and dented--and I loved them. We tacked them up on the front of the shop, spelling out the name that would come to mean so much: The letters were uneven and looked a little handmade and ragged, but it seemed to work. I loved this.. | Joanna Gaines | ||
| aeb22fb | On this particular afternoon, they all started teasing me. "You should go out to the lobby, Jo. There's a hot guy out there. Go talk to him!" they said. "No," I said. "Stop it! I'm not doing that." I was all of twenty-three, and I wasn't exactly outgoing. She was a bit awkward--no doubt about that. I hadn't dated all that much, and I'd never had a serious relationship--nothing that lasted longer than a month or two. I'd always been an intro.. | Joanna Gaines | ||
| e2ce338 | That's our new home!" Chip said, beaming with pride at his purchase. "What? You are crazy. We are not living on a houseboat." It quickly dawned on me that this wasn't a joke and Chip wasn't even close to kidding. I wasn't mishearing him. He was dead serious about making that boat our home for the next six months. I just about lost it. "How can we live on the water, Chip? Three of our kids don't even know how to swim!" -- | Joanna Gaines | ||
| fdcdeb2 | I felt good about having made the decision to walk away and lock that door. It's funny, though, looking back on it now, because one very simple concept in life never occurred to me as I was walking away: Even locked doors can be unlocked in time. I simply never could have imagined just how much God had in store for us, and I certainly couldn't have dreamed just how many keys to other doors God had already placed in our hands. | Joanna Gaines | ||
| dfdcda5 | That's our new home!" Chip said, beaming with pride at his purchase. "What? You are crazy. We are not living on a houseboat." It quickly dawned on me that this wasn't a joke and Chip wasn't even close to kidding. I wasn't mishearing him. He was dead serious about making that boat our home for the next six months. I just about lost it. "How can we live on the water, Chip? Three of our kids don't even know how to swim! Did you think this thro.. | Joanna Gaines | ||
| 84ea0db | I'm excited to go to Matt's parents' house for Christmas, but I wish he'd sprung it on me a little earlier, like maybe before all the stores closed. I would have liked to bring his mom something: a candle, a tea towel--I don't know. I've never had a boyfriend, therefore I've never had to impress a boyfriend's mom, so I'm just going off of what I think Reese Witherspoon or Joanna Gaines would do, and they'd sure as shit bring a gift for Mrs... | R.S. Grey | ||
| 2f37dbf | One pretty amazing thing we learned early on was that the more time we spent together, the better our relationship was. | spending-time-with-each-other | Joanna Gaines | |
| ea3d87c | Best of all, as happy as Chip Gaines was, he seemed happiest around me. I'm a generally happy person. My mom says I was a happy baby. But it's a fact--I was always happiest around Jo. And I still am. | Joanna Gaines | ||
| 87b679d | With all cameras on me, Chip released the blindfold and said, "Ta-da!" I wasn't sure what I was looking at. A shipwreck, maybe? On the back of a semi? "What is that?" I said. "I got this for you, Jo!" Chip replied. "That not be for me," I said. It was the ugliest, rundown-looking, two-story shack of a boat I'd ever seen. "What the heck are we going to do with a houseboat?" "That's our new home!" Chip said, beaming with pride at his purcha.. | Joanna Gaines | ||
| fad9665 | Well, I'm mad, but I'm not primer-in-the-face mad. | Joanna Gaines | ||
| 4167e69 | About four months into it, we were shooting hoops in my dad's driveway when Chip stopped in his tracks, held me in his arms, looked into my eyes under the starry sky, and said, "I love you." And I looked at him and said, "Thank you." "Thank you?" Chip said. I know I should have said, "I love you too," but this whole thing had been such a whirlwind, and I was just trying to process it all. No guy had ever told me he loved me before, and here.. | Joanna Gaines | ||
| f18b514 | Back in the late 1800s, when a place like this was originally built, you had to work with what you had, and you had to figure stuff out. You certainly couldn't Google it. You didn't have Internet. You didn't even have how-to books. You had to sit there and wrestle with it. You found this old spare part, you did this other thing, you hooked it up to a donkey, and you tried it out. Sometimes it worked. Sometimes it didn't. But eventually you'.. | Joanna Gaines | ||
| 175ab2a | I think it's important to reiterate here that I didn't start out wanting to be a gardener, or a designer for that matter. It was trial and error and figuring things out. And sometimes you've got to try something outside of your comfort zone to figure out what it is that you truly love. Well, you could say that about you and me right from the start. You were never looking for the loud guy, and I certainly wasn't looking for the quiet girl... | Joanna Gaines | ||
| 23b6f54 | Filling a room with the things you think you should because you've seen someone else do it that way or because you just want it to feel finished will never yield a home you truly love. You can make a room feel both beautiful and complete without filling every corner and surface with a bunch of random stuff. | Joanna Gaines | ||
| 313025c | To this day, I am still not sure what it was about Chip Gaines that made me give him a second chance--because, basically, our first date was over before it even started. I was working at my father's Firestone automotive shop the day we first met. I'd worked as my dad's office manager through my years at Baylor University and was perfectly happy working there afterward while I tried to figure out what I really wanted to do with my life. The .. | Joanna Gaines | ||
| d883d6c | We'd be walking downtown, and I'd hear, "Chip. Hey, Chip!" and I'd turn to see a person approaching us who, frankly, might have scared me if I was walking downtown by myself. Chip wouldn't be scared. He'd know the guy by name: "James! How's it going, brother?" It seemed as if every homeless guy in Waco knew Chip Gaines. On the flip side, every banker in Waco knew Chip too. And he talked to those two very different groups of people the same .. | Joanna Gaines | ||
| d33778a | Chip asked me about New York and what I wanted to do, and how long my dad had owned the shop, and what it was I loved about Waco. He asked about my sisters and my family in general, and what I'd done at Baylor, and if I'd known a few communications majors he'd run around with at school. (I told y'all he was chatty!) Somehow none of these questions seemed intrusive or strange to me at the time, which is funny, because thinking back I find th.. | Joanna Gaines | ||
| a328370 | I've always loved magnolia trees and their blooms--there's something so beautiful about a magnolia blossom. It demands attention, and you can't help but love those big, creamy petals and that fragrant smell. | Joanna Gaines | ||
| 0e46380 | When I finally calmed down, I saw how disappointed he was and how bad he felt. I decided to take a deep breath and try to think this thing through. "Maybe it's not that bad," I said. (I think I was trying to cheer myself up as much as I was trying to console Chip.) "If we fix up the interior and just get it to the point where we can get it onto the water, at least maybe then we can turn around, sell it, and get our money back." Over the cou.. | Joanna Gaines | ||
| c61136f | When I finally calmed down, I saw how disappointed he was and how bad he felt. I decided to take a deep breath and try to think this thing through. "Maybe it's not that bad," I said. (I think I was trying to cheer myself up as much as I was trying to console Chip.) "If we fix up the interior and just get it to the point where we can get it onto the water, at least maybe then we can turn around, sell it, and get our money back." Over the cou.. | Joanna Gaines | ||
| d22bf79 | Chip had been in there for a few very long hours. I had all kinds of awful thoughts about what might have happened to him in there. What if he'd been roughed up? Strip-searched? Who knows what awful things could have happened in a place like that? I saw scary-looking characters come and go as I sat in that cold, concrete lobby, trying to make myself invisible. Finally, out came Chip. "Hi, baby. Thanks for bailing me out," he said. He sounde.. | Joanna Gaines | ||
| 1ddad35 | I didn't get the impression that the policeman cared much about the whole thing either. After another thirty minutes of ruthless interrogation ('Can you ve'fy you eat banan' pancake?') he let me go asking me not to leave Khao San within 24 hours | thailand travel | Alex Garland | |
| dec27f6 | He spoke in english. Not flawlessly by any means. Not like a Nazi POW camp commandant who appreciates english poetry and says things like 'you know, we are much alike, you and I I'. But good enough | nazi | Alex Garland | |
| 4a32f71 | Ava's living area is made up of three primary spaces. | Alex Garland | ||
| ed6ee7b | Jed! I got stuck in some air pocket with more exits than..." I couldn't think of anything famous with a large number of exits "I nearly drowned!" | Alex Garland | ||
| a4abdee | Anyone who wants power within a white male power structure has been asked to quell anything that sounds like wrath, to reassure that they come in cooperative peace and are not looking to mete out repercussion against those who have oppressed or subjugated them. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| 1efcaa9 | The ability to feel the anger and convey it to others is itself the transformative experience for many women. Women's anger spurs creativity and drives innovation in politics and social change, and it always has. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| bfe1dd8 | Men literally have no idea how to even legitimately recognize or name our anger--largely because we don't either. This is new territory for everybody. Women's rage has been so sublimated for so long that there's simply no frame for what happens when it finally comes to the surface. --Sara Robinson | Rebecca Traister | ||
| 159dcdf | In many ways, the emotional and economic self-sufficiency of unmarried life is more demanding than the state we have long acknowledged as (married) maturity. Being on one's own means shouldering one's own burdens in a way that being coupled rarely demands. It means doing everything--making decisions, taking responsibility, paying bills, cleaning the refrigerator--without the benefits of formal partnership. But we've still got a lot of hardw.. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| 21ebc1e | The other side of the anger is the hope. We wouldn't be angry if we didn't believe that it could be better. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| 7a22fc2 | Gay marriage, inherently and ideally based on love and companionship, and not on gender-defined social and economic power, will be key to our ability to re-imagined straight marriage. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| ecd75a0 | In figuring out how a woman might win within a system that had not been designed with her in mind, Clinton had set herself up to lose. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| d64ad6e | The women's movement is a movement not of an oppressed minority, but of a subjugated majority. Majorities, by the very nature of their scale, are bound to include groups with varying--and warring--priorities and goals. By dint of size, a majority has the power over a minority--unless its foundations are eroded. The cheapest way to weaken and undermine a mass movement is to use its differences to divide it, and thus maintain power over it. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| b69e08f | I know there still are barriers and biases out there, often unconscious," she finally said, and the room roared in relief and affirmation. "You can be so proud that, from now on, it will be unremarkable for a woman to win primary state victories, unremarkable to have a woman in a close race to be our nominee, unremarkable to think that a woman can be the president of the United States." She paused. People screamed. "And that is truly remark.. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| fda6c3e | Because while it surely felt cathartic to see it all laid bare, even briefly, the view did not undo the damage. We could not go back in time and have the story of Hillary Clinton be written by people who had not also pressed their erections into the shoulders of young women who'd worked for them. We could not retroactively resituate the women who'd left jobs and whole careers because the navigation of the risks, of the daily abuses, drove t.. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| e693a66 | We are never forced to consider that rage--and not just stoicism, sadness, or strength--were behind the actions of the few women's heroes we're ever taught about in school, from Harriet Tubman to Susan B. Anthony. Instead, we are regularly fed and we regularly ingest cultural messages that suggest that women's rage is irrational, dangerous, or laughable. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| a84b576 | Of course it's not a waste to fight for justice, to work to right wrongs; but it is an extra tax on those already working from power deficits. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| e304167 | Humor can be such a good way to hide anger at racist, sexist degradation and to challenge white male authority sideways--without risking as much direct blowback--that it perhaps shouldn't be a surprise that the comedian Tina Fey wrote jokes about Harvey Weinstein's sexual predation--lines about being pinned under Weinstein, and turning down sex with him--that aired on her show 30 Rock in 2012, years before his behavior could be reported str.. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| b1caede | Anyone who lived through the 1960s should have known that the younger generation wins. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| 4e51532 | Men, including a former senator, told me of how shaken they were to hear from their wives and friends and mothers and coworkers about the ubiquity of sexual assault and harassment, how they had had their hair blown back by the anger they hadn't even known had been pent up. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| 7654071 | For if single women are looking for government to create a "hubby state" for them, what is certainly true is that their male counterparts have a long enjoy the fruits of a related "wifey state," in which the nation and its government supported male independence in a variety of ways. Men, and especially married wealthy white men, have a long relied on government assistance. It's a government that has historically supported white men's home a.. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| d565686 | Putting aside the fact that graveyards also contain large numbers of wives and mothers, Mills was wrong on another front: A job may very well love you back. It may sustain and support you, buoy your spirits and engage your mind, as the best romantic partner would, and far more effectively than a subpar spouse might. In work, it is possible to find commitment, attachment, chemistry, and connection. | Rebecca Traister | ||
| da63d0c | This book is about how anger works for men in ways that it does not for women, how men like both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders can wage yelling campaigns and be credited with understanding--and compellingly channeling--the rage felt by their supporters while their female opponents can be jeered and mocked as shrill for speaking too loudly of forcefully into a microphone. | feminism | Rebecca Traister |