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The Woman in Me
“There have been so many times when I was scared to speak up because I was afraid somebody would think I was crazy.”
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The Catcher in the Rye
“I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.”
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Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods
“I’ve spent my entire life treading around white people’s feelings. My job is to write the truth.”
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Ordinary Human Failings
“When she let herself pore over memories, she was hawkish.”
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In the Absence of Men
“I want to experience only the moment, not the looming certainty that I will lose that moment”
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Humble Pie
“When I think about myself, I still see a little boy who is desperate to escape, and keen to please.”
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When I Sing, Mountains Dance
““Nothing lasts very long,” the mountains say chillingly, “Not a thing. Not stillness. Nor calamity. Nor the sea. Nor your ugly little children.””
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My Year of Not Getting Sh*tfaced
“I think meditation and saying ‘no’ more often is going to help me, along with feeling it’s okay for people not to agree with me or like me.”
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The Promise
“Apartheid has fallen, see, we die right next to each other now, in intimate proximity. It’s just the living part we still have to work out.”