36 Rachel Sklar Quotes for You to Enjoy

Rachel Sklar

Canadian Lawyer

Born: Dec 8, 1972

Am Me People Twitter Women You

Related authors: Clarence Darrow James Carville Judy Sheindlin Kamala Harris Ralph Nader Robert Green Ingersoll Robin S. Sharma William Jennings Bryan

'Single' is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed. Rachel Sklar

Women Problem Single Though Fixed Applied

Good Lord - if I couldn't multitask, I don't know what I'd do. Rachel Sklar

Good Good Lord Know Lord Multitask

Oddly, a search for 'jeggings' in my email inbox shows that my first exposure to the phenomenon came from - wait for it - Mike Allen of 'Politico,' who helpfully explained the concept on December 20, 2009. Rachel Sklar

Wait First Email Allen Concept Came Oddly December Explained Mike Who Search Exposure Shows Phenomenon

I have jeggings to wear and worlds to conquer. Rachel Sklar

Worlds Wear Conquer

The road system that we've come to depend on, the road system that we built our wealth on and our power on, is falling apart. Rachel Sklar

Wealth Power Depend Our System Road Come Built Falling Apart

Here's the thing: 'The Hurt Locker' was an amazing, important film. But did I enjoy it? Of course not. It was very tough to watch and, while gripping, not exactly what you'd call a happy place. Rachel Sklar

When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do. Rachel Sklar

Mom Phone Will Parents Daughter Thanks Twitter Email Way Phone Calls Find Touch Checking Also Occasionally Calls Without Always Doing Go Get Them Regular Tweeting Even Keep Gratifying Amusing Stretch

I'm Jewish, but not overly religious, and have certainly never formally observed the Fourth Commandment, other than via the tradition of wearing white on Friday nights at summer camp, which never seemed to dovetail with the fact that Fridays were also the night for grape juice. Rachel Sklar

White Nights Other Summer Summer Camp Religious Wearing Seemed Fact Never Observed Also Overly Tradition Were Juice Commandment Friday Camp Than Via Which Certainly Grape Fourth Night Jewish

'Sesame Street' is awesome - not only because they teach, edify and entertain kids but because they savvily make it possible to do so with parental engagement, because the show is loaded with references for Mom and Dad. Rachel Sklar

Mom Awesome Kids Possible Entertain Parental Only Make Because References Engagement Teach Show Mom And Dad Dad Street Loaded Sesame Sesame Street

I feel lucky every day. But I can also trace that luck back to decisions I have made. Frequently, those decisions have been to pay my own way to somewhere I want to be and something I want to do. Rachel Sklar

I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action. Rachel Sklar

Gone Action Flung Way Out Limbs Center Far

I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous. Rachel Sklar

Strong Law School Goals Parents Lawyer Become Say Some Law School Per Someday Writer Leaning Becoming Go Were Just Suggestions

I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not. Rachel Sklar

Business Fault Worth Law Out Running Law Firm Rate Obscene Firm New Like She Hire Expecting Former Fun

My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important. Rachel Sklar

Time Great Post Space Important Breath Emails Draw Able Dive Week Weekends Write Dropping Stuff Am Still Time And Space Blog Subject Friend Timely Article Get Where Meant Whose Kept

I am pro-choice, but I don't consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life - there's no way that having an abortion, ever, is an easy decision, and it more often errs on the side of absolutely wrenching, not to mention physically debilitating. Rachel Sklar

Abortion Decision Side Consider Way Easy Wrenching Having More Physically Mention Absolutely Am Debilitating Pro-Choice Pro-Life Often Ever Inconsistent

In 2014, having children is complicated and daunting and fraught - as much as it's always been, but now we're talking about it. And the more we talk about it, the more of us will realize that we're not going through it alone. Far from it. Rachel Sklar

What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game. Rachel Sklar

I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back. Rachel Sklar

Home Me Building Holding Too Back Relationships Kind Outsider Contacts Up Etc Working Ground Many Started

I totally consider Fishbowl my full time job - I have to say I freaking love doing this blog. I just enjoy the medium so much; I love the fact that it requires me to read amazing stuff by hilarious and talented people and forces me to know what's going on in the world. Rachel Sklar

Love Time Me People World Amazing Job Hilarious Enjoy Medium Consider Say Totally Fact Stuff Talented Talented People Know Read Forces Doing Blog Going Just Much Requires Full Full-Time

I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do. Rachel Sklar

Out Constantly Account Hard

Not only do I not drive, I don't have my driver's license; there's a story there, but the upshot is that I spent my high school years an ardent environmentalist and workout junkie who wanted to save the environment, burn calories, and have my boyfriends drive me around. Rachel Sklar

Me School Drive Spent High License High School Only Ardent Driver Environment Environmentalist School Years Around Calories Boyfriend Years Burn Wanted Story Who Workout Save

Rachel Sklar Quotes

No more Rachel Sklar quotes