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"The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce."

"In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news."

"I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia."

"I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud."

"Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness."

"There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. If she is confirmed, Solicitor General Kagan will bring the Supreme Court to an historical high-water mark, with three women concurrently serving as Justices."
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"Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends."

"I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business."

"The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major."

"It does you no good to see the number two or number three man in the corporation-you have to get through to number one."
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"In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since."
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