"Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'"

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Source : FaceBook post by Jane Smiley from Jan 11, 2012

Jane Smiley

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“We've got minds and souls as well as hearts; ambition and talents as well as beauty and accomplishments; and we want to live and learn as well as love and be loved. I'm sick of being told that is all a woman is fit for! I won't have anything to do with love until I prove that I am something beside a housekeeper and a baby-tender!”
“I went to my doctor and asked for something for persistent wind. He gave me a kite.”
“If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.”
“Never, dear gods. Never mess with mortals.”
“I know more now than I did in the past about the process of democratization. I know more about the pitfalls.”
“There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide often between flowers of equal loveliness. ... The true anthologist has the greatest difficulty in finishing his book. There is always just one more, a new, delicious discovery.”
“A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.”

Source : "Mark Souder: The Hypocrisy of the Hypocrite" by Diana Butler Bass, www.beliefnet.com. May 18, 2010.
“This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ray Comfort from Mar 22, 2014

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