"Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again."

-- Maud Hart Lovelace

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“No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.”
“Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I've had lots of shocks because it's as though I don't learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me.”
“All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.”
“The handkerchief dabbed at my forehead. 'Ouch! You'll have a fine-looking bruise tomorrow.' 'Then you'll be able to distinguish me from Rose.' The handkerchief paused. 'I could tell you apart from the beginning. You're quite different to each other, you know.' Perhaps he could tell, in the obvious ways. The odd one was Rose; the other odd one was Briony.”
“In the future if my mother tries to shame me with her disapproval, I will let her know in no uncertain terms that I reject her and all of her codependent baggage. I am Codependent No More.”
“racism is alive and doing too well in America.”

Source : Johnnetta B. Cole (2011). “Conversations: Straight Talk with America's Sister President”, p.58, Anchor
“It is a testament to our naÃ¯vetÃ© about culture that we think that we can change it by simply declaring new values. Such declarations usually produce only cynicism.”
“I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.”

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