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- Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony.
- Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign…
- Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.
- Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that.…
- I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my…
- I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal…
- It's possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don't appreciate how tough your elders had it. It's true that, if…
- The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period…
- There have been tons of politicians who were slow to accept equal rights when it meant changes in the established social order. Many eventually came…
- What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a…
- When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's…
- Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripatetic crusaders like Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton,…
- Conservatives were sure that if you eliminated welfare for single moms, it would eliminate - or at lease greatly reduce - single motherhood. So in…
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was… — J. J. Abrams
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful. — Neil Armstrong
- I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium. — Neil Armstrong
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe