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“No, I don’t wear contacts, and contrary to what some people have said, I do not have a glass eye.”
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“I started going to rock shows at a really young age, and seeing other young people make music definitely influenced me.”
Source : Source: pitchfork.com
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“A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.”
Source : FaceBook post by Jane Smiley from Jul 28, 2012 
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“I can only speak for myself. But what I write and how I write is done in order to save my own life. And I mean that literally. For me literature is a way of knowing that I am not hallucinating, that whatever I feel/know is.”
Source : Barbara Christian (2010). “New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000”, p.49, University of Illinois Press
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“No woman is worth the loss of a night's sleep.”
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“Bush people didn't like him, and they never liked him. They didn't like him because they don't like democracy. They like you to have an election, but they like you to elect the people they want you to elect.”
Source : Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.
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“As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.”
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“Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter the setup, start out from scratch alone, and make life work for them all over again. They want the risk of disaster, want to touch bottom, see where bottom is, and, coming up, to breathe the air with relief and relish again.”
Source : Edward Hoagland (1995). “The Tugman's Passage”
