Judith Jarvis Thomson (born 1929) is an American moral philosopher and metaphysician, best known for her use of thought experiments to make philosophical points.
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“There was a girl who was running the traffic desk, and there was a woman who was on the overnight for radio as a producer, and my desk assistant was a woman. So when the world came to an end, we took over.”
—Marya McLaughlin, U.S. television newswoman. As quoted in Women in Television News, ch. 3, by Judith S. Gelfman (1976)
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