Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil beauty as in those unsung, unpainted hills of Pennsylvania.
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REBECCA FERGUSON Negative views of Pakistan expressed by prominent members of the global business community are taken... REBECCA MACKINNON One of the favorite conservative themes is that the cure for poverty is more marriage and earlier ma... REBECCA TRAISTER The erosion of privacy rights under the Fourth Amendment, written to protect us against unreasonable... REBECCA MACKINNON Facebook is blocked in mainland China, but is used heavily by the rest of the Chinese-speaking world... REBECCA MACKINNON When U.S. commercial interests press the Chinese government to do a better job of policing Chinese w... REBECCA MACKINNON I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call m... REBECCA WEST I hate women because they always know where things are. REBECCA WEST I have the distinct feeling that when I'm old, and I look back on my life, my thirties will be o... REBECCA MAKKAI To me I'm just a regular person going to the mall with friends, and now I'm in Forever 21 an... REBECCA BLACK We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and mat... REBECCA WEST The main difference between men and woman is that men are lunatics and woman are idiots. REBECCA WEST I did teach elementary school for quite a while, and so I didn't have to reach too far back for ... REBECCA MAKKAI If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on the headstone might well be: "It seemed a g... REBECCA WEST It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk. REBECCA WEST Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. REBECCA WEST People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a pros... REBECCA WEST When I get a brand new bag, I wear it for months and months. REBECCA GAYHEART Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. REBECCA WEST Journalism - an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space. REBECCA WEST Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. REBECCA WEST There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are interesting monologues, that is... REBECCA WEST The 'Shawshank Redemption' has nothing to do with China, but that hasn't kept social med... REBECCA MACKINNON The prints shop manager, a balding man of about thirty years old, dressed in a plaid work shirt and ... REBECCA MCNUTT Mandy would much rather have imaginary friends who were real than real friends who were imaginary. REBECCA MCNUTT How can I tell a story we already know too well? Her name was Africa. His was France. He colonized h... REBECCA SOLNIT I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call m... REBECCA WEST She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent... REBECCA WEST I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the p... REBECCA WEST Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers j... REBECCA WEST All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent di... REBECCA WEST Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse. REBECCA WEST There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vi... REBECCA WEST But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example. REBECCA WEST Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so ... REBECCA WEST One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories. REBECCA FALLS Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's... REBECCA WEST He is every other inch a gentleman. REBECCA WEST Did St Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better... REBECCA WEST