"I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad."
-Mary Gordon
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"One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss.“
-Mary Gordon
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"It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction."
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"We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does."
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"It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction."
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"How sweet it is!"
-Jackie Gleason
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"We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack."
-Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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"I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest."
-Laura Riding
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"We saw what happened in Jimmy Carter's administration. President Carter was a good man with the best of intentions. But he came to Washington without a good working relationship with Democratic members of Congress, which played a big part in his administration's problems."
-Jim Hunt
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"My relationship with the journalists who covered the campaign was complicated. I often hid from the critical eye of their cameras and their omnipresent digital recorders, wary of the critique implicit in every captured moment. But I also grew to respect and understand their passion for their work, their love for the journey we were sharing."
-Alexandra Kerry
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"The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational."
-Roger Mudd
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"If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught."
-Alexandra Guarnaschelli
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"In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection."
-Carol Gilligan
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