However, it seems that is never going to happen. So if people are going to filter, I want them to be open and transparent with their users about what they are filtering and why.


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Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform ...
REBECCA WEST
There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of ...
REBECCA WEST
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
REBECCA WEST
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call m...
REBECCA WEST
I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from ...
REBECCA WEST
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
REBECCA WEST
When I first drove my car down Sunset Strip, I nearly crashed my car gazing at the monolithic ads of...
REBECCA PIDGEON
A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.
REBECCA WEST
My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for g...
REBECCA LOBO
I was a sort of New York intellectual when I was 16. I wanted to dress like Annie Hall when I was 18...
REBECCA HALL
I'm really inspired by the show 'Future Boy Conan' from the '70s. It's a really ...
REBECCA SUGAR
Obama has proved to be particularly adept at using the media to disseminate his administration's...
REBECCA TRAISTER
It's so rare that I get to do something in my own accent in my own hometown.
REBECCA HALL
City life is stressful. Everybody is running around like crazy, stuck in traffic jams trying to make...
REBECCA PIDGEON
The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they ri...
REBECCA SOLNIT
It's not that bad things never happen. But there's a pattern in which most people are calm, ...
REBECCA SOLNIT
Our government and its social policies, its tax breaks, the way school days work, so much of the cou...
REBECCA TRAISTER
I've become really good at turning down the boring, pretty girl roles, the trophy wife, supermod...
REBECCA ROMIJN
There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'He...
REBECCA HALL
Shopping is a bit of a relaxing hobby for me, which is sometimes troubling for the bank balance.
REBECCA HALL
It's a controversial issue: many feminists reasonably worry that by taking the concentration off...
REBECCA TRAISTER
I am not trying to give an image of a fairytale, perfect, everything else, I am just being myself.
REBECCA LOOS
'Friday' is about hanging out with friends, having fun. I felt like it was my personality in...
REBECCA BLACK
Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, a...
REBECCA SOLNIT
When you talk to an author - to any artist, really - you learn something about how they do what they...
REBECCA MAKKAI
Sometimes I'm so tired, I look down at what I'm wearing, and if it's comfortable enough ...
REBECCA ROMIJN
Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there.
REBECCA LOOS
I wanted to step forward and be on TV and for people to see who I really was.
REBECCA LOOS
I'm a new mum who spends her days making baby food and cooking for her man. And I couldn't b...
REBECCA LOOS
I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame...
REBECCA LOOS
I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.
REBECCA LOOS
I did not know what my future was going to hold.
REBECCA LOOS
I am utterly in love with my son and my boyfriend and live in the most magical place on Earth. I'...
REBECCA LOOS
As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentif...
REBECCA WELLS
Some of my acting heroes have built careers on playing characters who do horrendous things - they...
REBECCA HALL
Since 'Christine' started screening, I'm overwhelmed by the response from women and men ...
REBECCA HALL
I really think that 'Christine' is one in a million in terms of independent or studio.
REBECCA HALL
These days we have Smartphones, Smartcars, Smartboards, Smarteverything, but consider this: if techn...
REBECCA MCNUTT
The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.
REBECCA SOLNIT
I like walking because it is slow, and I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three ...
REBECCA SOLNIT
I don't think that anyone can really understand anything until it's understood on a cellular...
REBECCA HALL
I definitely got my philanthropic genes from my mom and dad. They taught me from a very early age to...
REBECCA GAYHEART
An airplane should never lean too much to the left or the right, because it puts every passenger int...
REBECCA MCNUTT