Word: remarkable
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...book I wrote, The Prisoner of Sex, I said that biology is half of destiny for women. Freud said biology is destiny, but if they throw out Freud's remark entirely, they are losing touch with something absolutely vital. As women liberate themselves, they have to recognize that they carry a burden. Just as men carry other burdens...
...powerful remark Saddam Hussein made before Operation Desert Shield turned into Desert Storm still gnaw at world opinion: "If Israel withdraws from the Arab territories, I may think of withdrawing from Kuwait...
Finally, The Crimson twisted and took out of context my remark that "the time for debate is over" in order to claim in its lead editorial that I had advocated suppression of those who argued against the Gulf War. I was declared "despicable." My point, made to a rally whose participants were united in support of our troops but divided as to whether we ought to have delayed war, was simply that the question of whether sanctions would have been effective against Iraq was, at that point, academic, as fighting had begun. As one who contributes to the American Civil...
...when the plant closed its doors. The fresh-faced clerk she encountered at a local unemployment office held out little hope for a good new job. "I hate to tell you this," Drumm recalls the young woman saying, "but you know that you're over the hill." The remark hurt her deeply, but Drumm now says, "I really owe that girl a thank-you because she put a fire under my tail." With the help of a government program for dislocated workers, Drumm spent the next two years earning a bookkeeping degree, and now works for a local entrepreneur...
Twice a month the center publishes Notable Quotables, a compendium of sometimes embarrassing, often idiotic but always verbatim quotes from various journalists. It also confers such dubious honors as the Linda Ellerbee Awards for Distinguished Reporting on the journalists making the dumbest remark in various categories. Why did the watchdog group single out the TV newswoman and best-selling author for its scorn? Says Bozell: "She epitomizes a liberal blowhard who has nothing...