"Don't write when you're angry and under deadline, with time to test it only on friends who know what you mean, not on strangers who don't."

Writing, Patience, Emotion, Expression

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"Don't write when you're angry and under deadline, with time to test it only on friends who know what you mean, not on strangers who don't."

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"No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office."

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"I'm not advocating a competition for who has it toughest. The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers."

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"The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters."

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