{"author":"Gina Barreca","author_id":"Gina+Barreca","total_quotes":21,"quotes":[{"text":"It's not that diamonds are a girl's best friend, but it's your best friends who are your diamonds. It's your best friends who are supremely resilient, made under pressure and of astonishing value. They're everlasting; they can cut glass if they need to.","author":"Gina Barreca","tags":["friends","best friend","girl "],"id":38558,"author_id":"Gina+Barreca"},{"text":"Speaking up is important. Yet to speak up without listening is like banging pots and pans together: Even if it gets you attention, it’s not going to get you respect.","author":"Gina Barreca","tags":["attention","conversation","respect","speaking-up"],"id":85449,"author_id":"Gina+Barreca"},{"text":"...There is a celebrated aphorism insisting that the best way to live is to 'work like you don't need the money, dance like nobody is watching, and love like you've never been hurt.'...After years of hearing and reading these lines I have decided to tell the truth: the original version is wrong. There is a grave error in the wording of this adage. The correct version should go as follows:Love like you don't need the money,Work like nobody is watching,Dance like you've never been hurt.See? Doesn't that make more sense?","author":"Gina Barreca","tags":["feminism","gina-barreca","humor","women"],"id":116113,"author_id":"Gina+Barreca"},{"text":"In short, immaturity is spoiled. And what is spoiled doesn’t ripen. It goes bad early, gets bitter and withers on the vine.","author":"Gina Barreca","tags":["aging","immaturity","wisdom"],"id":127460,"author_id":"Gina+Barreca"},{"text":"Comics know that time plus pain equals humor and that we can redeem even awful moments from the past by translating them into a shared experience.","author":"Gina Barreca","tags":["humor","pain","past","stories"],"id":145810,"author_id":"Gina+Barreca"},{"text":"Like love, breakfast is best when made at home.","author":"Gina Barreca","tags":["love","home","breakfast "],"id":169448,"author_id":"Gina+Barreca"},{"text":"We all enter this world crying. Laughter is something we have to learn.","author":"Gina Barreca","tags":["laugh","laughter","mirth","on-firends","on-friendship","on-happiness","on-life","on-success"],"id":176757,"author_id":"Gina+Barreca"},{"text":"If you know you can do it - if you can already chart every day in your future - then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance.","author":"Gina Barreca","tags":["future","day","you can do it "],"id":196924,"author_id":"Gina+Barreca"},{"text":"How about 'diamonds are a girl's best friends'? Nope. It should be switched around and pointed out, instead, that your best friends are diamonds.","author":"Gina Barreca","tags":["feminist","friendship","humor"],"id":243568,"author_id":"Gina+Barreca"},{"text":"I see taking care of my emotional and mental health in the same way that I see taking care of a garment: After it's been through wear and tear, it needs attention.","author":"Gina Barreca","tags":["care","mental health","see "],"id":263267,"author_id":"Gina+Barreca"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}