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"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."
"The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female."
"There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever."
"But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated."
"If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children."
"If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail."
"Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts."
"Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed."
"The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?"
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