- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see so many people get so wrapped up in wanting to get a bigger SUV or a bigger house. But then I think, 'My God, I could have been born a woman in the Congo.'
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lake Como has always been a magnet for the elite.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother came from a generation that did not want nannies. She had her first child at 24 and her last - me - at 42.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know being pregnant and giving birth is the most wonderful thing on Earth. I know that after you have a baby, there is a sense of addiction, a need to have another. It's biological.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own mother, my sister and nearly all the women in my family had full-time jobs as mothers. They were wonderful at it. They drove their children back and forth to soccer, skating lessons, piano lessons, private schools, but I sensed, even in my own mother, a kind of distant dissatisfaction.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time I went to the doctor when I was in my twenties, he repeated the same thing to me: don't wait too long to have children.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human memory is short and terribly fickle.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once Iraq became a hot bed for kidnapping, reporters had to use every kind of trick they could manage to avoid it. This included chase cars, security men for more prosperous agencies and networks, and GPS signals on satellite phones that could pinpoint the journalist's locations.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time the Catholic Church takes one step forward, it seems to take one giant step back.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pope is an intelligent man and realizes that time marches on. He says the Church has a long way to go in developing a real strategy that integrates women - but clearly he is baffled as to how to do it.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jesuit priests who educated my brothers.
- Feminism
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is, feminism is not what it used to be.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Full disclosure: I went to university as an eager young feminist for many reasons - to get away from my parents, to soak up literature and knowledge, to cease being a child, to expand my mind and my world.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not sure that finding a husband at university made me any less of a feminist or an academic. I still soaked up Susan Faludi; I still read Doris Lessing. But I did it at the same time I met someone who I felt was my soulmate.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the first five years of Luca's life, I desperately wanted to be a good mother and not to pass on this trauma and darkness that his father and I had experienced, but there's a danger of suffocating your kids, too.
- Blue-Eyed
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the earliest age, I was just different. I think that's part of every writer's little revenge. You think, 'I'm not a blonde, blue-eyed cheerleader but I'm going to get out of here and do something.'
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent a good part of the nineties roaming the Earth writing about conflict. It was very grueling. I was beginning to find this way of life was, wow, addictive and deeply meaningful.
- Bosnian
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and Croats, and living side by side. And then this medieval siege, and it was a medieval siege, came, and the Bosnian Serbs were on the hills lobbing in rockets and grenades and mortars.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Iraq during the days of Saddam, I had a government minder who followed me everywhere, reported on my activities.
- Embedded
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never been embedded with the American army or, you know, with the big war machine.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never set out to be a journalist. I wanted to be a humanitarian doctor like Albert Schweitzer, working in Africa.
- Nov 07, 2020
I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love magazines. I always read 'Time,' 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist.' When I get my hair cut, French 'Vogue,' French 'Elle,' 'Paris Match' - I read them all in 10 minutes.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020