"So few grown women like their lives."
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"A mistake is simply another way of doing things"
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"News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising."
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"To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?"
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"The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact power has no sex."
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"Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society."
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"If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage."
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"We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows."
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"No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else."
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"I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong."
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"What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes and step off the ledge. The surprise was that I landed on my feet."
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"Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn."
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"To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential."
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"If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood."
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"The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot."
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"Whatever power I exert is collegial."
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"Truth and news are not the same thing."
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"I mean, I think everybody in the world, all the young people in the world, went to journalism school and wanted to investigate everything. And I think they overdid it. I think that you have to investigate things, you have to e skeptical, but you shouldn't be vengeful. You have to be fair and you have to be careful."
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"The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it."
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"The Montessori Method- learning by doing-once again became my stock in trade."
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