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her books became
such a part
of her
that
the ink
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you left and i wanted you still
yet i deserved someone
who was willing to stay
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Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy. 
Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated. 
If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any... 
When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, a... 
I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of differe... 
Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuria... 
In my end is my beginning. 
You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when. 
TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no... 
Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a ye... 
One of our most promising technologies is Super Cruise, which is the working name for an innovative ... 
Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. J... 
The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how we... 
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ... 
The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know. 
Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are... 
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if e... 
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it again... 
But the things is, you see, that two people can never actually become one no matter how close they a... 
...friendship...is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the ag... 
The biggest message I have for young women is, Don't start cutting off branches of your career t... 
A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a ... 
A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits. 
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet
never really meet; and two others at ... 
to live in this world
You do not have to be good.
[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neith... 
My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering t... 
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. 
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call f... 
I have never been contained except I made the prison 
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. 
It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny. 
No pressure, no diamonds. 
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. 
It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regar... 
A child is fed with milk and praise. 
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call Failure is not the fal... 
If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to l... 
Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts. 
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. 
We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us. One does not rape a... 
It sounds extraordinary but it?s a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading. 
Dogs come when they are called; cats take a message and get back to you. 
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at f... 
Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beau... 
No more tears now; I will think upon revenge. 
The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life a... 
Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places. 
The incipient institution needs some stabilizing principle to stop its premature demise. That stabil... 
In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very s... 
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death. 
The decent, strong person had to do decent, strong things like love unlovable people and keep peace ... 
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. 
My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings. 
The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery c... 
Both my parents were agnostic. My mother was kind of a Buddhist. She had some spiritual tendencies, ... 
The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. 
I want to go to Italy and France; those are my two places. And I really want to go to Greece. I'... 
I'd want it to be really special to both of us, but I'm a huge fan of 'At Last' as a... 