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It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one's disaster


Rebecca West

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REBECCA MCNUTT The ones who hate me the most are the ones who don't scare me.
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REBECCA SOLNIT I haven't heard of any cases of anti-American blog posts being censored or bloggers encountering...
REBECCA MACKINNON I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into n...
REBECCA MILLER I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying ...
REBECCA HALL Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolu...
REBECCA MACKINNON In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the ...
REBECCA TRAISTER I'm a very private person. I barely tell my friends what's going on half the time, so the id...
REBECCA HALL You scare me, Ryan Daley. Even more than those demons outside that scream for my death. How is it th...
REBECCA LIM I think this industry can be tough on everyone. You have to surround yourself with supportive people...
REBECCA FERGUSON It is time to stop debating whether the Internet is an effective tool for political expression and i...
REBECCA MACKINNON Tell me again about the girl whose hands
have no color. Whose hands are completely
white. ...
REBECCA WADLINGER