Babbit

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“The industry is really conservative and doesn’t know how great things are, especially when they’re written and created by women, and about women,” Babbit said.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2020

“The producer I met with was like, ‘Hey, I decided to meet with you because Jennifer Garner keeps complaining that we’re not hiring any women,’” Babbit recalled.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2018

“She didn’t send out any signal of interest, much less send in an application,” Arizona’s then-Governor Babbit told the Washington Post in 1989.

From Time • Jul. 7, 2016

Novels like F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Sinclair Lewis’s Babbit portrayed wealth and the self-made man in America, albeit in a critical fashion.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

But at last one afternoon I saw the Doctor come drivin' up like mad with his medicine chest, and Mrs. Babbit came in after supper and said that Luella was real sick.

From The Wind in the rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins