Quote by Susan Orlean
When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that

When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take him home, I burst into tears. It wasnt the emotion of the moment: it was shock and horror. – Susan Orlean

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I am of mixed minds about the issue of privacy. On one hand, I understand that information is power, and power is, well, power, so keeping your private information to yourself is essential – especially if you are a controversial figure, a celebrity, or a dissident. – Susan Orlean

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power
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One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend. – Susan Orlean

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best
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Sometimes Im dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us thats the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time. – Susan Orlean

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General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation. – Chief Joseph

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Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion. – Taslima Nasrin

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Home is where one starts from. – T. S. Eliot

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There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home. – Rosalynn Carter

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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. – Josh Billings

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Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact. – Marlene Dietrich

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We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872

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No one ever really dies as long as they took the time to leave us with fond memories. – Chris Sorensen

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