"To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity."

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Source : Melissa Gilbert (2009). “Prairie Tale: A Memoir”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

Melissa Gilbert

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“Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world â€” a place where they are one.”
“There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories, or songs, or images. Art delights, instructs, consoles. It educates our emotions.”
“There's no changing your mind about whom you love. That's part of the tough thing about being in love - it's sort of undeniable.”
“The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations... As women were lowered in the moral scale because of their identification with her at the very bottom of the pit, so they cannot rise themselves save as they succeed in lifting her with whose sins they are weighed.”
“I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.”
“The iPad is a superior consumption device for material on the Web.”

Source : "Flipboard's Mike McCue: Web Soon to Look More Like Magazines". Interview with Robert Hof, www.forbes.com. September 12, 2011.
“If I see a nice photography book in New York, and I don't want to have to carry that back to Japan with me, I just order it from Amazon when I come home. There's no treasure-hunting anymore. It used to be like a hunt to find Air Jordans, Max 95s, and carrying them back.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mundane of errands? No, not at all. Each time they go from our sight we in our secret hearts count them as dead. Having been given so much, we reason, how could we expect not to be brought as low as Lucifer for the staggering presumption of our love?”

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