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- Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the…
- I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not even…
- I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap:…
- Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us…
- Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.
- My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a…
- He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.
- ...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.
- Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.
- As I travel through life, I gather experiences that lie imprinted on the deepest strata of memory, and there they ferment, are transformed, and sometimes…
- The most savory grape, the one that produces the wines with best texture and aroma, the sweetest and most generous, doesn't grow in rich soil…
- I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women,…
- The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong