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“I quickly learned that motherhood was a high wire act sometimes performed without a net.”
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“... blood is thicker than water, of course, but it isn't ink to write your will with.”
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“Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.”
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“Defining child care primarily as women's sphere reinforces the devaluing of women and prevents their equal access to power.”
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“The highest thing one can do in literature is to succeed in saying that thing which one meant to say. There is nothing better than that — to make the world see your thoughts as you see them.”
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“Nobody can take away your future. Nobody can take away something you don't have yet.”
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“... from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it carries within itself; that is why Americans like speed, alcohol, thriller films and any sensational news: the demand for new things, and ever newer things, is feverish since nowhere will they rest.”
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“Groves and hill-sward smelt sweet; and as soon as the sun was down there streamed out all around the strong, cool, sourish breath of sap and growing things — it was as though the earth gave out a long, lightened sigh.”