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Flora Lewis

  • “There were the days of so-called free love ... but it didn't take long to discover that love is not free. Sooner or later it exacts its price.”

    • Flora Lewis,
    • in Lester Market, ed., Background and Foreground ()

  • “Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.”

    • Flora Lewis,
    • in Julia Edwards, Women of the World: The Great Foreign Correspondents ()

Flora Lewis, U.S. foreign correspondent, columnist

(1922 - 2002)