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The trouble with us is our hair, Pen. The minute men see a woman with our sort of hair they get interested — it doesn't matter who they are or where they are. Their first thought is, 'Gosh, what hair!' and from that moment on you simply don't like them. You know what fools they are.
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The good things end and the bad things end,
But the sum of it all at the last is gain,
While books and the cliffs and the seas remain,
And the strong true hand of a friend.
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Hedda always tells us things the first time as if it were the twentieth, and her patience quite worn out with telling us!
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She was one of those fortunate persons who can make listeners believe that they have achieved something by merely talking about it. Lucy could somehow make an overdue bill seem more creditable to her than many a woman could a bank-account. She was amazingly glib.
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But people's as quick to forget favors as to ask thim, we all know that.
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There's no marriage that couldn't be a success, and no marriage that couldn't be a failure. It depends on the women who are in 'em!
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If we do not always see our own mistakes and omissions we can always see those of our neighbors.
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That was old San Francisco, the gay, young, wind-swept, fog- shrouded city scattered about on seven times seven sand hills; a city ringed with dunes and with steep cobbled streets going down to wooden piers, and masts and hulls, and the blue waters of the bay.
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The clearing-house of the brain, the wings of the spirit, books lift us away from the petty, crowded day's smallness and entanglement.
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[The] very hot day... was like a last flaming hand-clasp from the departing summer.
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I always say that if the men had to have 'em every other time, there'd only be two babies, his and then hers, and then no more!
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Never in the history of the big, round world has anything like us occurred.
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Changing husbands is only changing troubles...
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Both prayer and poetry begin deep within a person, beyond the reach of language.
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There are men I could spend eternity with. But not this life.
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It's a strange sort of civilization to pose under the name of Christ. Christ had no double standard of morals; Christ forgave. Law is all very well, society has its uses, I have no doubt, but there are higher standards than either!
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We Irish are a queer unbalanced lot, but God knows what a cold, hard place the world would be without us!
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Happiness frightened her as solitude and loneliness never had done.
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For friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.
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When you are young you are surprised if everything isn't a success, and when you get older you're mildly surprised if anything is.
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In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made.
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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
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There seems to be so much more winter than we need this year.
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I write what I would like to read – what I think other women would like to read. If what I write makes a woman in the Canadian mountains cry and she writes and tells me about it, especially if she says 'I read it to Tom when he came in from work and he cried too,' I feel I have succeeded.
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The mystery that draws one human being toward another must remain a mystery to the end.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Kathleen Norris
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Born:
July 16, 1880
Died:
January 18, 1966
(aged 85)
Bio:
Kathleen Thompson Norris was a popular American novelist and newspaper columnist. She was one of the most widely read and highest paid female writers in the United States for nearly fifty years, from 1911 to 1959.
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Dakota
Acedia & me
Amazing Grace
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