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I love 'The Master And Margarita' by Mikhail Bulgakov, which is about repression in Soviet Russia in the 1930s.
I am an honest girl, M. le Vicomte de Chagny, and I don't lock myself up in my dressing-room with men's voices.
And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share.
When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.
I have nothing but the highest regard for 'Salon' and its commitment to independent and provocative journalism.
The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might.
What has the women’s movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro’s candidacy for vice president? Never get married.
It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.
Writers - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.
The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do.
What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.
People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.
The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.
The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.
Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
Inflation is not only unnecessary for economic growth. As long as it exists it is the enemy of economic growth.
I was born in Iran, left at a very young age - less than a year old - and grew up and was educated in the West.
I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
I'd almost prefer [Richard] Nixon. I'd say [Bill] Clinton is every bit as corrupt as Nixon, but a lot smoother.
Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself.
For the grifter, ripping people off is seldom the point. The grifter is an artiste who invests in the long con.
Paradoxically, I think working at an Internet magazine intensifies the attraction of beautiful printed objects.
CNN wants me to tell the news in a way that seems genuine and authentic. They don't want me to be Ron Burgundy.
I think standing up for facts and decency is important, and we should've done more of it back in 2015 and 2016.
There are news sources that are just out-and-out lies coming from Europe, coming from other parts of the world.
I'll start drinking tea over coffee when the big hand is on Never and the little hand is on Ain't Gonna Happen.
The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive.
Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.
observation of realities has never, to put it mildly, been one of the strengths of economic development theory.
People who try to predict the future by extrapolating in a line of more of what exists - they are always wrong.
Simply calling your credit card issuer and asking them to lower your interest rate may yield immediate savings.
Owning pipelines, people, products, or even intellectual property is no longer the key to success. Openness is.
The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.
Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam.
The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.
I rather envy writers who do variations on a theme. I like reading those books, but in practice, I can't do it.
In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.
It is one of Miss Manners's great discoveries that one needn't contradict others in order to set them straight.
There is something enormously compelling about Fran Cutler. She is a thrilling bundle of energy and enthusiasm.
I have a beautiful Hellenistic gold and garnet ring - it's more than 2,200 years old, but it looks very modern.
[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature.
I am not for abortion; nobody is for abortion. I am for your right to make your own hard choices in this world.
I probably have reported, probably more about the unusual animal death stories then anyone else on this planet.
Even we schoolchildren know that ordinary diplomats don't drive around in unmarked cars carrying Glock pistols.
An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.
When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.
This year [2016], however, polls show [Hillary] Clinton winning white college-educated voters by double digits.
I have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute.
A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-hearted man.