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Since the late 19th century, the median age of first marriage for women had fluctuated between 20 and 22. This had been the shape, pattern and definition of female life.


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REBECCA LOOS …I’m afraid of what the digital age will do to the world, to the things we think are important�...
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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 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 Tell me again about the girl whose hands
have no color. Whose hands are completely
white. ...
REBECCA WADLINGER Farm Aid was started in 1985 by Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews as a co...
REBECCA PIDGEON A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting...
REBECCA WEST Why hoard away so many back-issues of People Magazine? Fashion magazines are just empty promises. Yo...
REBECCA MCNUTT Credibility is a basic survival tool.
REBECCA SOLNIT As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering...
REBECCA SOLNIT Even in democratic society, we don't have good answers how to balance the need for security on o...
REBECCA MACKINNON Human freedom increasingly depends on who controls what we know and, therefore, how we understand ou...
REBECCA MACKINNON Companies should have a due diligence process to determine the likelihood that their technologies wi...
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