"The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly."

-- Madeleine L'Engle

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“There was also a sense that if he [Obama] did not win in Iowa, that it was very unlikely that he would be able to come back and win the Democratic nomination and win the general election. It was sort of an all-or-nothing bet. The stakes were that high.”
“I was a lawyer for 10 years, and when youre in law, things really have to get done, or somebody sues you. Its a great trick.”
“You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.”

Source : Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ann Dexter Gordon (2006). “The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: When clowns make laws for queens, 1880-1887”, p.396, Rutgers University Press
“I wanted to make a name for myself.”

Source : "Betting on Katie Cassidy". Interview with Ilana Kaplan, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 9, 2011.
“I wanted to preserve the feeling of remembering her just months after her death - the raw immediacy of it, so the drafts were really about getting the language right, getting the pitch right, keeping the voice austere and plainspoken.”
“I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, donâ€™t accept your limitations, jump before youâ€™re pushed, leap before you look.”

Source : "Louise Mensch: 'We're not all ogres'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.
“Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food”

Source : Joseph Butler (2012). “Human Nature and other Sermons”, p.43, Simon and Schuster
“Separating them were two layers of brick, a few inches of plaster, and nine years of silence.”

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