"Men get laid, but women get screwed."
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"The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.“
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"My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it."
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"There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings."
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"Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses."
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"Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors."
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"The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy they want to be right."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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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