"Women should not weaken their cause by impracticable demands. Make no claim which could not be won in a reasonable time. Take onestep at a time, get a good foothold in it and advance carefully."

-- Jane Swisshelm

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“If Murakami's novels are grand enigmas, his stories are bite-sized conundrums. (...) The great pleasure of the new story collection, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, is watching Murakami come at his obsessions from so many different angles. There's a panoply of strangeness between these covers (.....) This collection shows Murakami at his dynamic, organic best. As a chronicler of contemporary alienation, a writer for the Radiohead age, he shows how taut and thin our routines have become, how ill-equipped we are to contend with the forces that threaten to disrupt us.”
“We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once itâ€™s gone â€“ its value is incontestable.”
“We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another, and yet another behind the last one, and so on, up to the true image of that absolute, mysterious reality that no one will ever see.”
“The best weapon is to sit down and talk.”
“Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!!”
“I know the world that I am painting is not a reality. It is a whim, an entertainment to provoke something in people, whether as escapism or relief. I think that is very valid.”
“Frank [Zappa] was not a big fan of having lyrics, but sometimes he had things to say that lent themselves to lyrics.”

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