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"It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it."

"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."

"To embrace the message of Christmas is to throw off my hedonistic rebellion and bow before the chafing reality that I can't save myself, and in that very act to be suddenly taken aback in that I've stumbled upon the very freedom I've longed for in the very place I'd least expected it."

"Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man."

"The woman who realizes that she is bound by a million Lilliputian threads in an attitude of impotence and hatred masquerading as tranquility and love has no option but to run away, if she is not to be corrupted and extinguished utterly."

"The chief means of liberating women is replacing of compulsiveness and compulsion by the pleasure principle. Cooking, clothes, beauty, and housekeeping are all compulsive activities in which the anxiety quotient has long since replaced the pleasure or achievement quotient. It is possible to use even cooking, clothes, cosmetics and housekeeping for fun. The essence of pleasure is spontaneity. In these cases spontaneity means rejecting the norm, the standard that one must live up to, and establishing a self-regulating principle."

"When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw."

"When the women begin to take an active part in the struggle, no power on earth can stop us from achieving freedom in our lifetime."

"I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults."
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"I actually got the part. And I thought, Well, I'll do it for a while. I'll just quit if it's stupid."


"I touched an Oscar once. Friend of mine has one, for writing. As soon as I touched it, he said, Now you'll never win one."


"Sometimes we have to actually say, I think you're really funny, but none of your jokes are going to make it on the air. So just answer my questions. Seriously."


"I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling."


"People want other people to know that they share our sensibility even if they're not exactly sure what that sensibility is."


"Once I found out how much an Off-Off-Broadway actor makes, I was whoring myself out the next day."
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