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"Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go."

"To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now."

"Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions."

"Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors."

"I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that there's so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so different, and they never explain them to you."

"Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation."
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"If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger."


"However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole."


"In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty."


"Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.The blessing is in the seed."


"Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires."
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