"I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me... I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe is the reason for every work of art."
-Anais Nin, on writing.

"... and if the first time we dealt in something that came dangerously close to tragedy, the second time around we are definitely in the theatre of farce as our uncertainty dependency on our subjects in the field is shifted into a position of authority back home when we stand at the podium, reading our ethnographic writing aloud to other stressed-out ethnographers at academic conferences held in Hiltons where the chandeliers dangle by a thread and the air-conditioning chills us to the bone."
-Ruth Behar, on ethnographic research.

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"it's not what you say, it's how you say it."

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the wave pool at Mt. Tom, summer of '87

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hope

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Carolyn Ellis

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when I realized it was still half-full

Society & Lifestyle > Social Values & Norms Moral issues of abortion

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Those of us who are pro-life need to think critically about where exactly it stands vis-a-vis other important moral issues this election cycle. Unfortunately, given the imperfect structure of our political system, voting for a pro-life candidate usually means also voting for the war. While candidates as individuals may be pro-life AND anti-war, the powerful and polarized political parties force candidates (and therefore voters) to decide whom they'd rather save: millions of unborn babies, or millions of yet-to-be-slaughtered human beings.

As Rudy Giuliani discovered, candidates can't...

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