Patrick Henry Quotes
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, believed to have one of the highest rates of sexual violence in the world, girls and women face increased peril on the road to safety.
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The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
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I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.
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I like to think I'm a role model for women. But I also don't like to just limit it to women. I like to think I'm a role model for human beings in general.
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Great men marry great women.
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Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.
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If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.
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All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.
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I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
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But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
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The world is shifting from a hegemonic era, where the United States dominated alone, to a multipolar system.
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When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.
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We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.
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The beautiful 1940s women were a strong influence for me.
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I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.
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Quite frankly, I can't get enough of soccer. I tell my jingoistic friends in the United States there's a reason why it is the world's No. 1 sport. The rest of the planet can't be wrong.
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There should be characters and situations that we cannot identify with, that retain either too much horror or too much wonder to allow for simple identification. That feels to me like an accurate depiction of what it is like to be in the world, rather than a neutered register of continual empathy.
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In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, believed to have one of the highest rates of sexual violence in the world, girls and women face increased peril on the road to safety.
