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One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.

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The challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.

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Men seem more bound to the wheel of success than women do. That women are trained to get satisfaction from affiliation rather thanachievement has tended to keep them from great achievement. But it has also freed them from unreasonable expectations about the satisfactions that professional achievement brings.

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The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale.

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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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Phyllis Rose

Phyllis Rose

Born: October 26, 1942 (age 82)
Bio: Phyllis Rose is an American literary critic, essayist, biographer, and educator.
Known for:
  1. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages (1983)
  2. Jazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker in Her Time (1989)
  3. Babar's Lost and Found (2013)
  4. Babar and the New Baby (2013)

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