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I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she…

— Marina Abramovic

I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she…

— Marina Abramovic

Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.

— Edward Abbey

I wrote my first report about Madam Walker when I was a senior in high school in 1970.

— A'Lelia Bundles

I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.

— Willa Cather

My mother wrote a teen column for the South China Morning Post in the 1950s when she was growing up in Hong Kong. Her…

— Celeste Ng

My most memorable design-related encounter was also one of my most life-changing. I met Joyce Rutter Kaye, 'Print''s editor-in-chief from 1998-2008. It was at…

— Debbie Millman

[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.

— Elizabeth Bowen

My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University.

— James Cronin

I met Ulrika Jonsson on December 8, 2001, at some party hosted by the Daily Express, or maybe it was the Daily Star. The…

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

When I got to 10th grade at Booker T. Washington High, I had a teacher, Miss Geraldine Nesbitt. I think she came from New…

— Claudette Colvin

I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time…

— Paul Nurse