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“His demon is litigation and all his money goes in that.”
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“Have you noticed that some women make maternity, legitimatized, a perpetual exoneration?”
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“... I wrestled with reality for forty years, and I am happy to state that I finally won out over it.”
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“It isn't easy to be a person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun.”
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“... make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.”
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“The days when women leaders were viewed as deficit males are a relic of the past. ... Instead of treating women leaders as exceptions or anomalies who are categorized as 'women leaders,' and not just 'leaders,' we have to acknowledge that the number of women leaders will eventually reach a critical mass.”
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“In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping.”
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“What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressed by nickname, expected to participate in Show and Tell, and bullied out of any desire for privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten.”