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Whether you're an obstetrician or a third-grade teacher or a real estate agent, you know when you're doing good work. You're passionate about it.


Susan Isaacs

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SUSAN SONTAG Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
SUSAN ERTZ Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wr...
SUSAN RICE Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly...
SUSAN MINOT If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sur...
SUSAN RICE Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I ...
SUSAN ORLEAN I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kind...
SUSAN SONTAG Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide som...
SUSAN LIEBERMAN I love my life, my family and my friends, and I'm drawn to 'relationship' novels because...
SUSAN WIGGS Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some oth...
SUSAN ESTRICH You can admire people for sure, and they're worth admiring, but you need to find that special th...
SUSAN EGAN Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of cou...
SUSAN GEORGE Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
SUSAN SONTAG The American fantasy of love is the 'meet-cute,' 'Love at first sight,' and 'You...
SUSAN STRAIGHT The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjec...
SUSAN SONTAG I am a lover of truth; and if you think of truth as being multifaceted and so huge that we human bei...
SUSAN HOWATCH Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed 'evils' of homosexuali...
SUSAN ESTRICH Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, ...
SUSAN WOJCICKI I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell...
SUSAN ORLEAN The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
SUSAN SONTAG To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability....
SUSAN SONTAG As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people t...
SUSAN SONTAG Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
SUSAN SONTAG The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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