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“In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.”
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“A query letter should be like a skirt. Long enough to cover everything, but short enough to be exciting.”
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“Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.”
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“I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that will prompt me to alter various ideas I have about human evolution.”
Source : "The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.
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“If you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid you have in your glass, you are either a cliché or an alcoholic.”
Source : Caprice Crane (2011). “With a Little Luck: A Novel”, p.20, Bantam
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“Every new source from which man has increased his power on earth has been used to diminish the prospects of his successors.”
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“Diets are based on the unspoken fear that you are a madwoman, a food terrorist, a lunatic…The promise of a diet is not only that you will have a different body; it is that in having a different body, you will have a different life. If you hate yourself enough, you will love yourself. If you torture yourself enough, you will become a peaceful, relaxed human being.”
Source : Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.73, Simon and Schuster
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“That dark humor has always been a part of what I've done. It's always been somewhat tongue-in-cheek.”