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Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
Fawn M. Brodie
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The first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old.
Mary Lee Settle
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Just as a child is born without fear, so is it born without prejudice. Prejudice, like fear, is acquired.
Marie Killilea
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She imagines herself clean as a fish,
evasive, solitary, dumb. Her prayer:
to make peace with her own monstrous nature.
Elaine Feinstein
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Competition with a parent is doomed from the start: you're a loser if you fail, a traitor if you win.
Julie Phillips
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In the love affair, as in sculpture, poetry, and every other fine art, no lasting success can be achieved without skill.
Doris Langley Moore
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Measuring is one of the more practical uses of mathematics, but the ability and desire to measure aren't always wrapped up with the need to know useful answers.
Kitty Ferguson
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I eat till, honest, I felt every button on all my clo'es. The folks where we were stayin' were the old-fashioned hospitable kind; they didn't let you off till your jaws struck work and wouldn't wag no more.
Laura E. Richards
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For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.
Katharine Anthony
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In things greate and extraordinary some perhaps will take notice of God's working, who either forgett or believe not that he takes as well a care and account of their smallest concernments...
Lucy Hutchinson
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The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale.
Phyllis Rose
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I tried to do it all myself: be mommy and camp counselor and art teacher and prereading specialist (and somehow, in my off-hours, to do my own work). I tried my absolute best. And like so many of the moms around me, I started to go a little crazy.
Judith Warner
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One of the penalties of longevity is that some of the dearest and most familiar faces depart, leaving gaps which cannot be filled.
Mary Soames
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It was on Good Friday that Miss Bendix lost her faith. She had really lost it before then, but, as is often the case with losses, she did not notice that anything was missing for some time after it had gone.
Naomi Royde-Smith
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Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.
Patricia Cornwell
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I used to think it was great to disregard happiness, to press on to a high goal, careless, disdainful of it. But now I see that there is nothing so great as to be capable of happiness...
Anne Gilchrist (writer)
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All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.
Evelyn Beatrice Hall
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We must be willing to change chairs if we want to grow. There is no permanent compatibility between a chair and a person. And there is no one right chair. What is right at one stage may be restricting at another or too soft. During the passage from one stage to another, we will be between two chairs. Wobbling no doubt, but developing.
Gail Sheehy
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To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a scholar but the stamina of a horse.
Nancy Milford
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You think she's warm, but she's really quite aloof. She gives it all to the camera.
Kitty Kelley
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It's okay to be afraid. It's not okay to let the fear STOP you.
Cupcake Brown
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The part we play is not as we want it, but as we are made-with the genitals God gave us.
Maureen Howard
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Lincoln had internalized the pain of those around him-the wounded soldiers, the captured prisoners, the defeated Southerners. Little wonder that he was overwhelmed at times by a profound sadness that even his own resilient temperament could not dispel.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
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I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.
Mary Shelley
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Here lies the tremendous mystery - that God should be all-powerful, yet refuse to coerce. He summons us to cooperation. We are honored in being given the opportunity to participate in his good deeds. Remember how He asked for help in performing his miracles: Fill the water pots, stretch out your hand, distribute the loaves.
Elisabeth Elliot
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