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I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and even s...more

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the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to...more

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Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.

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I had to do something about my longing, so I got up, went to the kitchen in my nightgown, peeled a pound of potatoes, boiled them up, sliced them, fri...more

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He lived in sight of both worlds, but he looked toward the unknown. And he was a scholar.... You can still live on that shimmering line between your o...more

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Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over th...more

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This much I do know - I'm exhausted by the cumulative consequences of a lifetime of hasty choices and chaotic passions.

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At no point in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished from too much learning.