The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.


Rebecca West

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You can't wait for someone to give you a show. That can't be the first time you're writi...
REBECCA SUGAR
Contemplate the good things in your life and be grateful for them.
REBECCA PIDGEON
We can't constantly tell stories of heroes. We have to hear the other stories, too, about people...
REBECCA HALL
I remember sitting on a bench in New York and sobbing and realising that my ambition to be a singer ...
REBECCA FERGUSON
I knew I could sing. That one thing I did believe in was that I could sing, but then constantly gett...
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
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
Tell me again about the girl whose hands
have no color. Whose hands are completely
white. ...
REBECCA WADLINGER