"For all kinds of reasons, it is more difficult to track women's lives. Women's words have simply been considered less important, so they have been preserved less often."

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Adele Logan Alexander

#Track Quotes #Important Quotes #Kind Quotes

“In everyday life there is always manana. There is no urgency”
“It's nice to be wanted in almost any capacity.”
“A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.”
“I want to go to Morocco really bad.”
“People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.”
“Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isnâ€™t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for comfort. But Henry James is â€“ profoundly so. Because he is tender. The tenderness is there in the structure of the sentence. He knows the way the poor and the dead are forgotten by the living, and he cannot allow that to happen. So he keeps on writing for them, for the dead, as if they were children to be sheltered and loved, never abandoned.”
“I was hoping to get a reception like this, I'd just hoped that it would be on Thursday night instead of Tuesday night.”
“I have seen the cycle of a non-violent, mentally ill offender who is arrested repeatedly and put into the system repeatedly-never being treated for his illness and, as a result, becoming more and more ill.”

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