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Senator Kennedy joined Harvard's Owl club in 1954 before women were admitted to the campus and long before they were integrated into campus life. No one can question Senator Kennedy's lifelong commitment to fighting for civil rights, equality and justice.


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LAURA ROBSON I don't just want to be someone who hits the ball 100 per cent every time. You can play with fre...
LAURA ROBSON Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
LAURA ROBSON If I don't play well, then it's not the end of the world, because we all learn in tennis tha...
LAURA ROBSON I think there are so many phenomenal runners. I grew up watching Cathy Freeman, Kelly Holmes, and Mi...
LAURA ROBSON There's a puppy store near where I live. They know me by name in there because I go so often.
LAURA ROBSON Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.
LAURA RIDING If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer yo...
LAURA RIDING I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad ma...
LAURA RIDING Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which...
LAURA RIDING The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The...
LAURA RIDING I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I kn...
LAURA RIDING I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thi...
LAURA RIDING To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of ar...
LAURA RIDING Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for...
LAURA RIDING We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of our...
LAURA RIDING I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic c...
LAURA RICKETTS My hope is that we will inspire more lesbians to get politically engaged. For too long, lesbian wome...
LAURA RICKETTS Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society. I know in my experience of a...
LAURA RICKETTS I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my ...
LAURA RICKETTS When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parent...
LAURA RICKETTS We all have different perspectives on the world. I'm a woman. I live in Chicago. I'm gay.
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