"The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue."

-- Susie Orbach

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“Thinking, not for the first time, that life should come with a trapdoor. Just a little exit hatch you could disappear through when youÂ´d utterly and completely mortified yourself. Or when you had spontaneous zit eruptions. â€œGood book?â€ he asked, taking it from her and reading the subtitle, â€œA Guide for Good Girls Who (Sometimes) Want to Be Bad,â€ out loud. But life did not come with a trapdoor.”
“That is one of the reasons I write: to feel the Presence of God and know He is speaking to me in a very personal way, instructing me, correcting me, redirecting me.”
“There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.”
“I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.”
“I've always been into the not stereotypical hunk guy - I'm into dorky, like I call it adorkable. And I think that a lot of girls are into that. I think there's something disarming about it and endearing and also puts you at ease and there's an attractiveness there - it's like a good sense of humor, self-deprecating, weirdness. You know? Because I think we all have that in ourselves, but we just try to hide it because it's not "cool," but a lot of people can kind of relate to that feeling or the outsider feeling.”

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“Ashcroft went on to say that our way of life is being threatened by a group of radical religious fanatics who are armed and dangerous. And then he called for prayers in the schools and an end to gun control.”
“I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.”
“Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.”

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