It didn't help my career to be living in Appalachia.

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• Sally Mann:

  It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissanc

• Sally Mann:

  I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, b

• Sally Mann:

  I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm tran

• Sally Mann:

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• Sally Mann:

  I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about an

• Sally Mann:

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• Sally Mann:

  I'm not an ardent feminist - well, maybe I am an ardent feminist. I just roll my eyes at the way wo

• Sally Mann:

  Very few males have the confidence to appear vulnerable.

• Sally Mann:

  I think the media is a fear-mongering operation. They love to rile their viewership up or to scare

• Sally Mann:

  Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your i