Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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