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I think the question that nobody wanted to deal with is the question they're posing: did my kid die in vain? Because the answer is too awful,


Joan Baez

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JOAN LARSEN And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your record...
JOAN JETT Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the...
JOAN BLADES You can take charge, kick ass, do whatever you have to do and it's okay. You can blow people up....
JOAN SEVERANCE Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.
JOAN DIDION My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.
JOAN BAUER I think that in our society we should do everything to encourage child-bearing and family-making. An...
JOAN LUNDEN We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to ...
JOAN BLADES What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.
JOAN MIRó Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.
JOAN RIVERS Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only questio...
JOAN DIDION I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things.
JOAN COLLINS Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and ...
JOAN COLLINS So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes t...
JOAN JETT I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the b...
JOAN CUSACK