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In the middle of a conversation, she'll frequently say something like, "Young people are heartless, they don't have any respect anymore." I nod agreement in… — Susanna Tamaro
I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity. — Angelina Jolie
In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity movement!… — Holly Near
The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality,… — Barbara Ehrenreich
We live in a culture that wants to put a redemptive face on everything, so anger doesn't sit well with any of us. But I… — Claire Messud
The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims of the most… — John Stuart Mill
The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all… — Alice Walker
What the great ones do, the less will prattle of — William Shakespeare
My intent is to speak on behalf of those whose voices are less readily heard - children and women at risk — Susan Sarandon
Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an uncertain future and… — James Surowiecki
We can't impede progress in the name of environmental action that yields little for the environment and even less for our people.. and we should… — Meg Whitman
Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself. — Robert Frost
A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less. — Henry Edward Manning
In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply… — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Those who sniff decay in every shift of sense or alteration of usage do the language no service. Too often for such people the notion… — Bill Bryson
The less self-conscious you are about what you are about, the better in a way, that is to say technically. You have to get it… — Flannery O'Connor
I never spent less than two years on the text of one of my picture books, even though each of them is approximately 380 words… — Maurice Sendak
Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being depicted as ifit were an… — Rudy Rucker
Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance to that poor… — Margaret Sanger
Pretty much everyone I know, no matter what size, is trying some system. Even when someone gets to looking like she should be so proud… — Melissa McCarthy

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