One of the things that confirmed Hyacinth’s suspicion that America was an evil, lonely place was that people were islands unto themselves. And so when Avril drifted away, there was no friend or neighbor or pastor or coworker to reach out to and ask after her child.


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The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath.
NAOMI CAMPBELL
My grandfather was actually a union organizer at Walt Disney. He was an animator. He used to draw Do...
NAOMI KLEIN
The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights...
NAOMI WOLF
For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementar...
NAOMI JUDD
In a fascist system, it's not the lies that count but the muddying. When citizens can't tell...
NAOMI WOLF
I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are...
NAOMI JUDD
Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries famously lasted 72 days, and was reported in the tab...
NAOMI WOLF
Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical th...
NAOMI WOLF
As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a ...
NAOMI WOLF
For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not 'war...
NAOMI WOLF
Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
NAOMI JUDD
Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem ...
NAOMI CAMPBELL
Parisian women have an inner elegance that's envied the world over. They are so relaxed about ag...
NAOMI WATTS
Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.
NAOMI JUDD
Fossil fuels are - they're inherently centralized. And you need a lot of infrastructure to get t...
NAOMI KLEIN
When I started out modeling, there weren't casting directors and there weren't stylists, so ...
NAOMI CAMPBELL
The more hardcore conservative you are, the more tightly identified you are with defending the inter...
NAOMI KLEIN
If there is one thing BP's 'watery improv act' made clear, it is that, as a culture, we ...
NAOMI KLEIN
A state of shock is what results when a gap opens up between events and our initial ability to expla...
NAOMI KLEIN
Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and at...
NAOMI KLEIN
When I was about 14, my family emigrated from England to Australia, and we decided to stop in Bali o...
NAOMI WATTS
I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all th...
NAOMI KLEIN
That's the trick of free market economic theory: it doesn't just ask you to only be selfish ...
NAOMI KLEIN
Am I bossy? Absolutely. I don't like to lose, and if I'm told 'no,' then I find anot...
NAOMI CAMPBELL
When I had dark hair I definitely felt that I was more anonymous.
NAOMI WATTS
The Heartland Institute, which people mostly only know in terms of the fact that it hosts these annu...
NAOMI KLEIN
I've been trying to pinpoint what keeps drawing me back to the Gulf of Mexico, because I'm C...
NAOMI KLEIN
I am delighted to be joining 'Guardian U.S.'s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the ch...
NAOMI WOLF
Those who listen with their hearts will begin to see patterns everywhere.
GRACE-NAOMI
What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '...
NAOMI KLEIN
Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
NAOMI KLEIN
While everyone is focused on security and civil liberties, Trump's Cabinet of billionaires will ...
NAOMI KLEIN
Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad...
NAOMI WOLF
Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn'...
NAOMI WATTS
Here in Canada, the people who oppose the tar sands most forcefully are Indigenous people living dow...
NAOMI KLEIN
As soon as you write about climate change, the first attempt to discredit you is, 'Well, you wro...
NAOMI KLEIN
The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified d...
NAOMI KLEIN
I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings o...
NAOMI BENARON
The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions ...
NAOMI WOLF
No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and take...
NAOMI WOLF
Your hope is the most beautiful and the saddest in the world.
NAOMI BENARON
A typical minority-group stereotype - woman as nigger - if she knows her place (home), she is really...
NAOMI WEISSTEIN
It would be fantastic if everyone joined forces to give what they can.
NAOMI CAMPBELL