Rhoda Janzen Quotes

#1. In my opinion, sexiness comes down to three things: chemistry, sense of humor, and treatment of waitstaff at restaurants.

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#2. I've come to believe that virtue isn't a condition of character. It's an elected action. It's a choice we keep making, over and over, hoping that someday we'll create a habit so strong it will carry us through our bouts of pettiness and meanness.

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#3. The idea is that the woman's heritage and background are just as important as the man's. Many women see taking a man's name as a gesture of symbolic oppression. It's like saying to the woman, 'Who you are as a person isn't as important as who I am.

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#4. I would rather get a PhD than stand to reach for toilet paper. Though some readers might emphasize the similarities between the two activities.

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#5. Call me old-fashioned, but whenever I see those wire-fortified ribbons, I have the secret stab of nostalgia for old-timey ribbon, the kind whose ends flop like spaniel ears. I'm suspicious of unnaturally perky ribbon.

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#6. I'm not really a chicken-patty kinda girl, I said.

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#7. Granny panties. White as a flag, but with no surrender.

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#8. It was after Nick had left me that I learned the lesson: its when you don't love somebody that you do notice the little things. Then you mind them. You mind them terribly.

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#9. Is it ever really a waste of time to love someone, truly and deeply, with everything you have?

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#10. When you're young, faith is often a matter of rules. What you should do and shouldn't do, that kind of thing. But as you get older, you realize that faith is really a matter of relationship - with God, with the people around you, with the members of your community.

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#11. Phil and Hannah had decided that Christian guilt was better than bad math

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#12. What I want to measure, what I can control, is my own response to life's challenges.

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