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- And so, Thanksgiving. Its the most amazing holiday. Just think about it — it's a miracle that once a year so many millions of Americans…
- I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity [Wellesley] stuck us all with, a kind of glazed politeness in the face of boredom…
- Maybe young women don't wonder whether they can have it all any longer, but in case any of you are wondering, of course you can…
- I think you often have that sense when you write--that if you can spot something in yourself and set it down on paper, you're free…
- Too few journalists become screenwriters. I say to all the would-be screenwriters: Become journalists. And I’ll say to working journalists: Do not stay journalists. Become…
- What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
- Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
- There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or better living through…
- Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something…
- I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn't work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I…
- From the essay "Twenty-five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to Be Surprised by Over and Over Again" 1. Journalists sometimes make things up. 2.…
- I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.
- Here are some questions I am constantly noodling over: Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your…
- There is something called the rapture of the deep, and it refers to what happens when a deep-sea diver spends too much time at the…
- Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together... and I…
- Well, I'm gonna get out of bed every morning... breathe in and out all day long. Then, after a while I won't have to remind…
- The odd thing about this form of communication is you're more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want to say that…
- Above all, be the heroine in your life, not the victim.
- I never went near the Wellesley College chapel in my four years there, but I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity that…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle