When I first read Anne Frank’s ‘Diary of a Young Girl,’ I saw for the first time that a girl could be a writer and that it had something to do with survival and with ethics and fighting against evil. I admired her, though her diary remained terrifying and mysterious to me. She was a character in a real fairy tale – fairy tales are brutal. Kate Bernheimer Read Quote
It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy. Franz Liszt Read Quote
I believe, unlike people that are totally free-market, laissez-faire fundamentalists, that there is an important role that the government can play – one, in providing public goods, whether it’s education, health care, or other things, and two, supervising countercyclical policy – stimulus, whether it’s monetary, fiscal, or otherwise. Nouriel Roubini Read Quote
The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area. Karen Duffy Read Quote
The modern era of Cape Cod baseball dawned in 1963 when the league became a showcase for the collegiate elite. Jane Leavy Read Quote
I’d got to that age when I was out on a date with a guy and I would be thinking: Don’t mention your age, don’t mention that you want a child – because they would just run out the door. Denise Van Outen Read Quote