"Sometimes when we have to speak suddenly we come closer to the truth than when we have time to think."

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Madeleine L'Engle

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“I have always been spurred on by my not finding expressed anywhere the kinds of perspectives that I thought these issues most perspicuously needed and deserved; but that is just another way of saying that Americans have overwhelmingly expunged from their public understanding the strongest and most clarifying resources out of ancient and traditional European cultures. By far we prefer our familiar and user-friendly parochialisms, and there is no percentage in trying to pry these pachydermal plates apart.”
“Skys are crying, I am watching, catching teardrops in my eyes.”
“It never leaves, not with someone we love. Their presence burns too vivid in our memories. Happen that is as it should be, for otherwise we would too easy forget.”
“We have to help decision makers realize that women's reproductive health rights are civil rights and that women need to be free to make the same decisions that men are free to make with regard to health care and whether and when to have a family. It's going to be increasingly important for women to speak up not only about being able to make our own decisions, but also about the importance of being trusted to make our own decisions.”
“The only time I can ever remember Steven crying over any of it was after my treatment, when I tried to use my foot on his bass drum pedal, and we realized I could never play a drum set.”
“I watched her do speeches, but the only footage we could find of [princess] Margaret was archive footage, which was of her public presentation of herself.”
“The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.”
“Look deep inside, and when you locate the sadness, give it a vacation, and focus on the simple things.”

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