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"Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community."
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"My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system."
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"You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship."
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"I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way."
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