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In photographs taken from the sky, cities resembled circuit boards. It was no surprise, really, that there were sparky misfirings, dangerous connections. Even traffic, Alice concluded, set up a kind of static in the air, let loose vibrations and uncontainable agitation. Freighted with more than they could absorb, with city intentions, citizens moved in designs of inexplicable purpose.


Gail Jones

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GAIL ANDERSEN We will have a lot of new faces in the mix. We have good team chemistry, new guys are finding their ...
GAIL ANDERSEN We're a young team. We'll grow from this, and it will only help us in the future.
GAIL ANDERSEN We looked like a completely different team in the second half. We built momentum and started attacki...
GAIL ANDERSEN The team never quit, and three team members played an exceptional game, all over the field.
GAIL ANDERSEN It was one of those precision plays that unveil themselves about once a match. It all came together.
GAIL ANDERSEN For the undocumented immigrants, the big priority is just to get out from the shadows, be able to ge...
GAIL COLLINS You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off...
GAIL COLLINS In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dram...
GAIL SHEEHY Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripateti...
GAIL COLLINS Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-3...
GAIL SHEEHY The delights of self-discovery are always available.
GAIL SHEEHY You reduce illegal immigration by making it harder to get jobs here, or easier to get jobs south of ...
GAIL COLLINS You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper o...
GAIL GODWIN Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
GAIL GODWIN Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.
GAIL POOL If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
GAIL SHEEHY Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
GAIL SHEEHY Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own ...
GAIL SHEEHY Sarah Palin is treated like a bimbo sometimes, but she has never given the public the respect they d...
GAIL COLLINS You hear younger women say, 'I don't believe I'm a feminist. I believe women should have...
GAIL COLLINS Very few women manage to have it all; certainly not all at once.
GAIL SHEEHY To be honest, I haven't seen much serious budget planning since the Republicans took control of ...
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