"the modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don't fill up my life?"
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"I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour."
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"Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?"
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"The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with."
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"We don't want wars even when we win."
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"How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know; I've never been a man minister."
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"The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers."
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"I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either."
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"It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore."
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"As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing."
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"It is a dreadful thing to see the dead city. Next to the port I found children, women, the old, waiting for a way to leave. I entered the houses, there were houses where the coffee and pita bread were left on the table, and I could not avoid [thinking] that this, indeed, had been the picture in many Jewish towns [i.e., in Europe, during World War II]."
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"We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons."
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"How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia?.. the America I've known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I've known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews."
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