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Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.


Lydia M. Child

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LYDIA MILLET Aggressive female icons have been chronically demeaned... It's fine for male artists to be angry...
LYDIA LUNCH In Nagasaki, American planes did drop warning leaflets - but not till Aug. 10, a day after the city ...
LYDIA MILLET In Hiroshima, bombed Aug. 6, 1945, no warning was given of the air attack, and thus no escape was po...
LYDIA MILLET Oil drilling and coal mining are killing endangered wildlife, polluting rivers, creating smog over w...
LYDIA MILLET If you think of something, do it.

Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this,...
LYDIA DAVIS The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered ...
LYDIA SIGOURNEY In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or ev...
LYDIA SIGOURNEY The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined...
LYDIA LUNCH Ever since they announced that golf would be returning to the Olympics, I thought, 'Hey, I wanna...
LYDIA KO For almost two centuries, American gray wolves, vilified in fact as well as fiction, were the victim...
LYDIA MILLET Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all ...
LYDIA LUNCH The comic novels I did when I was in my 20s had a harder edge - less sympathy for people. Or a sympa...
LYDIA MILLET I've never wanted a quiet life.
LYDIA CACHO I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need mu...
LYDIA LUNCH In October 2014, for the first time in almost three-quarters of a century, a gray wolf was seen lopi...
LYDIA MILLET I can be pretty dense about my own basic needs, when my focus is getting through the many small task...
LYDIA MILLET I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'...
LYDIA LUNCH I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be ...
LYDIA LUNCH If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary m...
LYDIA DAVIS When it comes to American Indians, mainstream America suffers from willful blindness.
LYDIA MILLET I've played such good golf, and it was hard coming up and it wasn't easy in any matches or a...
LYDIA KO African elephants have long been thought of as a single species, but a critical mass of genetic stud...
LYDIA MILLET Within the macho-melodrama tropes of the superhero genre, it's fair to say 'Watchmen' st...
LYDIA MILLET If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would b...
LYDIA LUNCH