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- Nov 07, 2020
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- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.
- Endings
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.
- Clearest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.
- Forks
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.
- Bible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.
- Equal Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved. Law, institutions, corporations moved forward. But many minds did not.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020