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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman I'd done this privately I wanted him to look at it approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.
Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then only a few feet away in the cookbook section just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?
Quotes By Jonathan Safran Foer
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We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children.
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I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so...
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We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch...
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There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use...
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Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up and you don't want...
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I usually write away from home in coffee shops on trains on planes in...
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Jews have a special relationship to books and the Haggadah has been...
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I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny I'll be funny...
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The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat...
Quotes About Relationship
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I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me....
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We saw what happened in Jimmy Carter's administration. President Carter was a...
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My relationship with the journalists who covered the campaign was...
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The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution...
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If you want to have a relationship at some point you have to let yourself...
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You know I think that President Obama is a person who has a great...
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I feel like in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge the woman is...
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I would stay on but 'General Hospital' honestly doesn't seem to want that...
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I am looking for a character that connects to me on some level. It has to be...
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I've been working on Barb for a while. I looked at her as a sort of every...