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LISA UNGER Fact: I don't know of a single girl who doesn't wish the show-it-all boxer-shorts phenomenon would g... LISA SAMSON The stones in your driveway may have come from the slaves who spend all day breaking rocks because i... LISA KRISTINE I would like to be able to disappear whenever I do something dorky. LISA MCMANN She said she collects pieces of sky, cuts holes out of it with silver scissors, bits of heaven she c... LISA ZARAN I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate ... LISA BONET People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously unders... LISA RANDALL I think the skin revolution for women, I will call it, really all started with Mariah Carey. Madonna... LISA BEDRICK There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and ... LISA LOEB My own novel, 'The Silver Bough,' about the inhabitants of a remote town at risk of being ov... LISA TUTTLE Six years after I wrote the first draft of 'Plan B,' I received my first paycheck as a write... LISA LUTZ I didn't realize what an impact having a No. 1 single would have. It connects me with people of ... LISA LOEB Harvard freshmen are smart, interested, and excited, and it's fun hearing their different perspe... LISA RANDALL Think about how our country was built. The greatness came from our diversity; the greatness came fro... LISA MURKOWSKI I think it's fair to say that women have a different level of intuitiveness that allows them to ... LISA MURKOWSKI The letter had been crumpled up and tossed onto the grate. It had burned all around the edges, so th... LISA KLEYPAS Ah, there’s the governess voice. All stern and disapproving. It makes me feel like a naughty schoo... LISA KLEYPAS Hair color is the easiest way to change your appearance, but a bad dye job might draw more attention... LISA LUTZ Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and VERY important. -Lisa Hoffman. LISA HOFFMAN Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. LISA HOFFMAN The Beslan Mothers are becoming more and more empowered with time passing, ... The meeting is a very... LISA ARONSON Most bureaucracies take a while to get it together, and this is America -- we have so much and we ca... LISA ARONSON