Ayelet Waldman
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CHARLOTTE RAMPLING It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of t... EUGENE JARECKI How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS RIDLEY SCOTT My parents were born in Korea. They spent a good part of their life in Korea. RANDALL PARK CHELSEA CLINTON It would in my view be very strange, and that, by the way, was the reaction of a large part of the m... PASCAL LAMY REBECCA TRAISTER JOHN UPDIKE I was born in Ludwigsburg, Wuerttemberg, in the southwestern part of the Federal Republic of Germany... HARTMUT MICHEL I know the dangers and the seductions of the Middle East. It is part of my identity. I grew up among... KAI BIRD PHIL JACKSON DAVID LEE The P.L.O., and later the Palestinian Authority, never truly accepted that Israel, as the national s... DANNY DANON JON STEWART Something happened to the State of Israel. 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DOLORES HUERTA The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own... FLORENCE ELLINWOOD ALLEN It was a unique childhood, to say the least. My father was born in Patiala to refugee parents and wa... KAPIL SHARMA CHAZ BONO BHARATI MUKHERJEE I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother&... JESSICA HAGEDORN EDMUND WHITE One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again -... ANITA HILL Theater was definitely part of my roots. My father would take me to plays, and then my mother was al... CHRISTIAN SLATER JOSHUA BELL It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of th... CONAN O'BRIEN RICHARD YATES Valor never dies as long as brave souls, willingly give their lives for our freedom. Some may take t... TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. 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I was born in Russia in 1901 of Jewish parents and came to the United States in 1922 to join my fath... 
My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian... 
Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is ... 
Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... 
After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot o... 
I'm used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away ... 
My parents always asked me what I thought, listened to my opinions, articulated their diagnoses of o... 
In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the ... 
When I was born, my parents and my mother's parents planted a dogwood tree in the side yard of t... 
My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They ... 
My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical enginee... 
I was born in New York City, but I was raised in New Jersey, part of the great Jewish emigration of ... 
I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father,... 
The women's movement was always going to work in two parts. With one part, we'd break open t... 
We lived above my father's launderette. Both my parents ran the launderette, but my father was a... 
In a day and age where it seems like women want to be with unstable, psychotic, manipulative freaks;... 
I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina a... 
In Colombia, where I was born and raised, women like my mother considered their appearance and perso... 
I frankly felt like the reception we received on the way in from the airport was very warm and hospi... 
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. 
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... 
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. 
But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted.... 
I, of course, was born as if I was a movie star in my head. Even though I had nothing, in my head I ... 
A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again; that's not the case in my family. 
In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a p... 
My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd pa... 
My father was - actually was an Episcopal priest as a young man. Became a psychotherapist, a psychol... 
I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea... 
My first cousin, by the way, on my father's mother side was John Marshall Harlan, who was a Supr... 
Because we're Jewish, my father immigrated to Holland in 1933, where he became the managing dire... 
I was never really attached to a clique, and I wanted to be in all the different groups; I was never... 
History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... 
My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first mar... 
My grandfather's family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door sel... 
One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature 
The great thing that I appreciate - the fact that my godfather, William 'Sticky' Jackson, wa... 
I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will... 
I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick... 
After Rilke's Letters
His words filled my heart to the brim. I loved him in a way I’d never be able to express in words.... 
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." 
The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service. 
Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My par... 
It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the... 
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... 
We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And... 
On 'The Messenger,' just imagining playing the part of a soldier in that movie was kind of h... 
I was born on 7 September 1917 at Sydney in Australia. My father was English-born and a graduate of ... 
When my first daughter was born, my husband held her in his hands and said, 'My God, she's s... 
Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers? I mean, that's what - that whole oversharing ... 
There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagin... 
The age of 20 was all about stupid things. I did crazy things but never lost it. I was, you know, a ... 
There's no such thing as too late. There are different roles for different ages, assuming an act... 
I did an episode on the TV show 'Awake,' and I thought, 'Wow, that's really hard.... 