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" Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly - young and old, faithful and cynical - as has Pope Francis. "
Nancy Gibbs
Attention
New
World
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" There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership. "
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" The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well. "
Nancy Gibbs
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Death
Children
" People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents. "
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People
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" I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance. "
Nancy Gibbs
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Family
" Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear. "
Nancy Gibbs
Horror
Together
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" My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football. "
Nancy Gibbs
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Ask
Playing
" It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones. "
Nancy Gibbs
Think
Tool
Hard
" We are bombarded with reasons to stay inside: we're afraid of mosquitoes because of West Nile and grass because of pesticides and sun because of cancer and sunscreen because of vitamin-D deficiency. "
Nancy Gibbs
Stay
Inside
Grass
" I'm wondering how many elected figures any of us could find who do not, in the front or back of their minds, remember who does them favors, who doesn't. "
Nancy Gibbs
Remember
Us
Minds
" Across much of the developing world, by the time she is 12, a girl is tending house, cooking, cleaning. She eats what's left after the men and boys have eaten; she is less likely to be vaccinated, to see a doctor, to attend school. "
Nancy Gibbs
Men
Time
World
" The millennials were raised in a cocoon, their anxious parents afraid to let them go out in the park to play. So should we be surprised that they learned to leverage technology to build community, tweeting and texting and friending while their elders were still dialing long-distance? "
Nancy Gibbs
Community
Play
Technology
" The days of the Pentagon Papers debates seem long past, when a sudden transparency yielded insight into fights over war and peace and freedom and security; the transparency afforded by Twitter and Facebook yields insights that extend no further than a lawmaker's boundless narcissism and a culture's pitiless prurience. "
Nancy Gibbs
Past
Culture
Long
" Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, 'Walk this way.' "
Nancy Gibbs
Walk
America
Down
" What cultural DNA remains from those first Puritan forays onto American soil may be our love of a fresh start. "
Nancy Gibbs
Love
Start
American
" There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going. "
Nancy Gibbs
Slow
Lost
You
" 'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept. "
Nancy Gibbs
Divorce
Children
Street
" If you want to humble an empire, it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe. "
Nancy Gibbs
Faith
Burn
You
" Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge. "
Nancy Gibbs
Safety
Power
Best
" I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen. "
Nancy Gibbs
Place
Show
You
" I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about. "
Nancy Gibbs
Reach
Been
Grateful
" America's presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it. "
Nancy Gibbs
Nature
Reach
America
" Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting. "
Nancy Gibbs
Accounting
Pain
Natural
" Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting. "
Nancy Gibbs
Never
Will
Control
" There was a time when researchers imagined that Plan B, or the morning-after pill, might become not an emergency form of contraception but a routine one; women would take it once a month to induce a period and never even know whether they had gotten pregnant. "
Nancy Gibbs
Month
Women
Time
" A president can't go to every memorial service. "
Nancy Gibbs
President
Memorial
Every
" After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter. "
Nancy Gibbs
Man
Office
Country
" Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes. "
Nancy Gibbs
Learning
Making Mistakes
Mistakes
" Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip. "
Nancy Gibbs
Skill
Influence
Other
" Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us. "
Nancy Gibbs
Want
Know
Us
" War is being waged all across the country against the invasive plant and animal species - some 50,000 of them - now spreading across the U.S. "
Nancy Gibbs
Some
War
Now