"If Calder [her brother] were there he'd tell her how corny she was, but it wouldn't be what he meant and they'd both know it."
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"Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history: that of women and power."
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"The word mother is more powerful when it is used
as a verb than as a noun."
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"Americans responded to these pressures by trying to become salesmen who could sell not only their company’s latest gizmo but also themselves."
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"[It's] true what the strategists say about hearts and minds -
you have to win them both. We will change our ways significantly as a nation not when some laws tell us we have to... but when we want to."
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"The one comfort that all of us can take is that we are not the only people on the planet who have something to swim against. We are not alone in our battle to disprove a statistic."
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"What matters is that, for the rest of their lives, both my daughters understand that to reach a goal, they must put one foot in front of the other and perservere... Above all else, they know that little does not mean weak, that girls are indeed strong, and that practically anything is possible."
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"One day, courage might call for a bigger self, not for making oneself smaller."
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"It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless automat of characters."
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