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We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.


Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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GAYLE FITCH Moving to the floor right now would be an act of extremely poor faith. If we are going to have a bip...
GAYLE OSTERBERG A lot of widows would stick it in a drawer -- not my mom. She flew it until it was worn.
GAYLE MEADORS A lot of policy makers have no idea what a very small percentage of what they think is affordable ho...
GAYLE ALBEE How am I supposed to decide this? How can I possibly stay without mom and dad? How can I leave witho...
GAYLE FORMAN Bribes are the glue that's kept teenagers and parents connected for generations
GAYLE FORMAN We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back to...
GAYLE FORMAN You just work through it. You just hang in there.
GAYLE FORMAN You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control.
GAYLE FORMAN Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I...
GAYLE FORMAN All I can think about is how fucked up it would be for your life to end here, now. I mean I know tha...
GAYLE FORMAN This is the you I like. You definitely dressed sexier and are, you know, blond, and that's different...
GAYLE FORMAN But I'd understand if you chose love, Adam love, over music love. Either way you win. And either way...
GAYLE FORMAN Adam is crying and somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm ...
GAYLE FORMAN People believe what they want to believe.
GAYLE FORMAN Girlfriend is such a stupid word. I couldn't stand calling her that. So, we had to get married, so I...
GAYLE FORMAN I'm not choosing, but I'm running out of fight.
GAYLE FORMAN Fake it 'till you make it.
GAYLE FORMAN Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won't feel real at first, and when it does, it...
GAYLE FORMAN Please Mia," he implores. "Don't make me write a song.
GAYLE FORMAN And that's just it, isn't it? That's how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies,...
GAYLE FORMAN One in a million cases; such comforting odds, except when you were the one
GAYLE FORMAN Everyone has hardship in their life. Everyone has pain.
GAYLE FORMAN ...being Lulu, it made me realize that all my life I've been living in a small, square room, with no...
GAYLE FORMAN