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"I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge."
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"Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education."
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"Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!"
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"I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia."
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"Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'"
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"Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it."
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"I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever."
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"You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education."
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"Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made."
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"With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education."
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"Sex education has to do with what's in people's head."
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"I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom."
Life
"Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in."
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"I think moms need to share information on a regular, intimate basis."
Information
"People who love science fiction really do love sex."
Love
"There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before."
Morality
"There are also just as many, if not more, women who are anxious to hold down the status quo."
Woman
"Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard."
Reading
"I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge."
Education
"I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me."
Time
"I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood."
Creativity
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