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...this little town, and that went on for years until the Federal government began making ever more regulations. They built a new post office and she couldn't take her animals to work. You can't do this and you can't do that. And she said, the hell with it and walked out, and [went ] back to farming. She turned 40 the book before this and lives there with her husband, who is a vet and just gets in one mess after another because she's too nosy...
...Hell no. They threw me out. Here I am, a southern country girl, so I was easy to write off as a stupid kid. I still had my accent - I have it when I go home, but I hadn't learned how to disguise it. I raised the issue of class differences between women and racial differences. At this point this was really quite an important band of women in America, but not necessarily representative of all women's concerns. Then, of course, I raised the issue of gay women. That was all it took. [Betty Friedan...
...Hell no. I fought. I wrote in the newsletter and I fought. It didn't do any good because everybody was scared sh--less of her. But I'll give Betty credit. I don't know if you ever met her. Bombastic, rude, self-centered. Brilliant. And you know what? Fundamentally a moral person and about 20 years later she apologized to me in public. It took a lot. She said, I was wrong...
Jawad has a vision of what he wants in an Iraqi democracy: “We want language. We want books. We want jazz music. We don’t want turbans. We export them tax free—to hell...
...They almost did kill us. I mean they beat the hell out of us,” Filkins said. “They were blaming us for the suicide bombs...