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I feel very strongly that if something happens to another mother's kid that it happens to my kid.


Susan Sarandon

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SUSAN HOWATCH Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed 'evils' of homosexuali...
SUSAN ESTRICH Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, ...
SUSAN WOJCICKI I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell...
SUSAN ORLEAN The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
SUSAN SONTAG To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability....
SUSAN SONTAG As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people t...
SUSAN SONTAG Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
SUSAN SONTAG The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
SUSAN SONTAG The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of...
SUSAN SONTAG I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
SUSAN SONTAG The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
SUSAN SONTAG Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
SUSAN SONTAG Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists...
SUSAN SONTAG Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
SUSAN SONTAG What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine w...
SUSAN SONTAG Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.
SUSAN SONTAG It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less intere...
SUSAN SONTAG Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to ...
SUSAN CHEEVER Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the partic...
SUSAN ORLEAN Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running w...
SUSAN LUCCI Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, comm...
SUSAN VREELAND Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful ...
SUSAN CAIN Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessive...
SUSAN CAIN