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SUSAN SONTAG I always try to avoid looking at the section where my books would be shelved, but I do know that my ... SUSAN CHOI It become totally untenable to me that after acting for 25 years - I've played Juliet, Cleopatra... SUSAN STRASBERG My women students openly admit that they dress for interviews like dates, hoping to look their best:... SUSAN ESTRICH I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. ... SUSAN ORLEAN I first travelled to Africa at the end of 1996 and was immediately captivated. I had planned on a th... SUSAN MINOT I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically ... SUSAN GRIFFIN Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations. SUSAN FALUDI As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in... SUSAN OLIVER I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you <... SUSAN SARANDON The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wis... SUSAN SONTAG In another life I would be a medievalist. I loved Chaucer, far more than Shakespeare. SUSAN HILL Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits. SUSAN SONTAG Extroverts are more likely to take a quick-and-dirty approach to problem-solving, trading accuracy f... SUSAN CAIN