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Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.
— Katherine Dunn
What greater gift could you offer your children than an inherent ability to earn a living just by being themselves?
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I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object.
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My worst is all out in the open. It makes it necessary for people to tell you about themselves.
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Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.
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What's bred in the bones, when you have bones, comes through. And they looked at her, watched her, wanted to squirt her full of baby juice.
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They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.
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I don't mind being lord of all I survey but I don't want to have to work at it. It just wouldn't be practical.
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[Pride and power] are the same except that pride leaves the lights on and power can do it in the dark.
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The whiskey looks like transparent wood in my glass.
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Every doorway, every intersection has a story.
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Oh, of course, I always feel unconfident.
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Women who pay their own rent don't have to be nice.
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American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
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It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.
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Crystal Lil, her door propped open, sits in front of the television with a pan in her lap, a brown bag at her feet. She
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The hope you get from religion is a three-ring, all-star hope because the risk is outrageous.
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Sometimes just looking at [my parents] I wanted to bash their heads with a tire iron. Not to kill them, just to wake them up.
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I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.
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But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.
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Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees.
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The top head would have controlled everything and made his poor little butt-brother miserable.
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I think that it's really important to go away and come back.
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Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.
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The classic definition of slapstick runs along the line of, Funny is someone else ramming his face repeatedly into a brick wall.
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He must love me, i thought, amazed. A faint whiff of nausea hit me at seeing pain as proof of love, but it seemed true. Unavoidable.
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Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.
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But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.
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I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.
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I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.
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I knew what he felt. The huge buoyant air sack of love that filled his body had just exploded and the collapse was devastating.
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This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.
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