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“For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life.”
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“Trying to help an oppressed person is like trying to put your arm around somebody with a sunburn.”
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“When we live with a memory we live with a corpse; the impact of the experience has changed us once but can never change us again.”
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“Years flowed in and flowed out of his mind like tides, leaving pools of memories full of small living things.”
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“Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.”
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“I have never lived in a room that wasn't a still-life — I couldn't.”
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“If men pride themselves on the fact that Jesus Christ was born of their sex, the answer is that this was necessary for the sake of decency, for if he had been a woman, it would have been impossible for Jesus to go out at all hours of the day and the night and mingle with the crowds to convert them and to help and save mankind, without creating a scandal ...”
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“... nor did he make the least provision for either of us, when he went abroad. 'Tis true, I was then in Lincoln's Inn-Fields Playhouse, and from thence engaged at a good salary with the late Mr. Fielding; but then I was as liable to death or infirmities as any other part of the creation, which might have disempowered me from getting my own, or my child's bread.”