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If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.

Barbara Kingsolver

From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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Kitchen Memories Men
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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might Next Splits
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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Fountain People Thinking Want
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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Eggs Life Perfect
Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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Dog Voice Water
There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness
But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.
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Job Mother Running
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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Mountain Moving Winning
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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Children Littles Magic
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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might Reality Space

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