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• “Maybe not teen motherhood but we live in a culture where – for middle class women certainly – even having children in your twenties is regarded as too young.”

  ProWomanProLife » Teen moms

• “I counted out the four hundred dollars in twenties to make sure it was all there.”

  The Last Goodbye. «

• “I always laugh when an actor in his lower twenties is given the role of the Ph.D. in a film.”

  Least Plausible Actors in the Role of Ph.D.

• “Founded in 1915 in Georgia, the "modern" Ku Klux Klan, an anti-Negro, anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic organization, reached its peak of power in the U.S. in the mid-twenties; is now moribund.”

  Albert Lutuli - Nobel Lecture

• “But this partial autobiography, which ends in the nineteen-twenties, is strong evidence in his favor, all the more because it covers what he would have called the unregenerate part of his life and reminds one that inside the saint, or near-saint, there was a very shrewd, able person who could, if he had chosen, have been a brilliant success as a lawyer, an administrator or perhaps even a businessman.”

  Reflections on Gandhi

• “If the keynote of the writers of the twenties is ‘tragic sense of life’, the keynote of the new writers is ‘serious purpose’.”

  Inside the Whale

• “I am aiming at men (and, hopefully, women) from early-teens to mid-twenties, which is pretty much the standard comic book audience.”

  Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Fox’s Review Forum

• “Too bad I would look awful in a matching dress: the twenties were a bad time for curvy ladies as the waistline was too low ...”

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• “I also recalled the twenties I passed him back in June for travel emergencies when we put him on a plane to Kansas.”

  The Wall Street Journal: When a Child 'Forgets' to Give You Change

• “But for our family, as for many other Korean households in Hawai'i, the twenties were a time of rising prosperity.”

  Excerpt: Honolulu by Alan Brennert

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