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For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story.


Rebecca Skloot

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REBECCA FERGUSON I was a really big fan of cartoons growing up, and I loved to read too much into them most of the ti...
REBECCA SUGAR Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't ...
REBECCA FERGUSON We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster...
REBECCA SOLNIT There's so much crap attached to acting: the fame aspect, the ego aspect, the 'Am I good, am...
REBECCA HALL The world you live in is not a given; much of what is best in it has been built through the struggle...
REBECCA SOLNIT I got a phone call saying we are from the News of the World, and we're exposing you and David Be...
REBECCA LOOS …I’m afraid of what the digital age will do to the world, to the things we think are important�...
REBECCA MCNUTT If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is...
REBECCA SOLNIT What are you doing?” Alecto asked in surprise, stepping back. Laughing brightly, she dragged him t...
REBECCA MCNUTT She dug into one of the boxes, finding clay angels she’d made in art class when she was seven year...
REBECCA MCNUTT Winters are a desolate time where all senses are wiped away, and here in Canada, this is especially ...
REBECCA MCNUTT The ones who hate me the most are the ones who don't scare me.
REBECCA MCKINSEY Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.
REBECCA WEST The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
REBECCA WEST Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.
REBECCA WEST I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone...
REBECCA SOLNIT I haven't heard of any cases of anti-American blog posts being censored or bloggers encountering...
REBECCA MACKINNON I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into n...
REBECCA MILLER I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying ...
REBECCA HALL Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolu...
REBECCA MACKINNON In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the ...
REBECCA TRAISTER I'm a very private person. I barely tell my friends what's going on half the time, so the id...
REBECCA HALL You scare me, Ryan Daley. Even more than those demons outside that scream for my death. How is it th...
REBECCA LIM I think this industry can be tough on everyone. You have to surround yourself with supportive people...
REBECCA FERGUSON It is time to stop debating whether the Internet is an effective tool for political expression and i...
REBECCA MACKINNON