“While researching 'The Submission,' I went to a protest against the Ground Zero mosque in New York when I was about to give birth to twins. It was about 100 degrees. People thought I was very dedicated.” PeopleGivingNew YorkBirthDegreesProtestZeroDedicatedTwinsSubmissionMosquesGround Zero Author:Amy Waldman
“I absorb the science section of 'The New York Times.' You know, I have a degree: I'm an A.A.D. Almost a Doctor.” KnowsNew YorkDegreesDoctorsSectionsNew York Times Author:Evelyn Lauder
“There may be something universal about idealizing the past, but I think it's taken to an absurd degree in New York, which is what I'm poking fun at. The hole-in-the-wall bars I went to in the 90s that smelled like sewage now enjoy legendary status, as if times were had there that could never be had anywhere else.” IfsThinkingMayPastFunEnjoyTakenNew YorkWallDegreesUniversalBarsHolesAbsurdLegendarySewagePoking Fun Author:Vestal McIntyre
“I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it's changed so that every bizarre story in the country now has a Florida connection. I don't know why, except it must be some inversion of magnetic poles or something.” ThinkingKnowsCountryStoriesCitiesNew YorkChangedDegreesConnectionsCaliforniaRanNew York CitySouthernFloridaBizarreOld DaysWeirdnessMagneticSouthern CaliforniaNexusInversions Author:Carl Hiaasen
“Freud pointed out, in his Problem of Lay Analysis, that it is extremely unlikely that a young man who would throw the best years of his life into the cloistered drudgery of getting an M.D. degree, could possibly make a good psychoanalyst; so he preferred to look for young analysts among the writers, the lawyers, the mothers of families, those who had chosen human contact. But in their economic wisdom, the Psychoanalytic Institute of Vienna (and New York) overruled him.” MenYearsHumansLooksProblemYoungMotherEconomicNew YorkDegreesLaysLawyerChosenContactAnalysisYoung ManUnlikelyInstituteAnalystsDrudgeryBest YearViennaPsychoanalytic Author:Paul Goodman
“I don't have any degrees. I went to Hunter College one year and New York University another year. It's just on the basis of my books that I've been hired at any of the places I've been.” YearsBookNew YorkCollegeDegreesBasesUniversityHuntersAnother YearPlaces I've Been Author:Grace Paley
“My mother worked for more than a decade before marrying. She went to New York City to get a master's degree. And she continued to work as a teacher and a principal until she was forced to retire.Both she and my father instilled in my sister and me a deep love of learning.” MotherFatherCitiesTeacherNew YorkMastersDegreesDecadesNew York CityRetiringMy SisterPrincipalDeep LoveMarryingLove Of Learning Author:Samuel Alito