"I write because in the act of creation there comes that mysterious, abundant sense of being both parent and child; I am giving birth to an Other and simultaneously being reborn as a child in the playground of creation."

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Francine du Plessix Gray

#Children Quotes #Writing Quotes #Giving Quotes

“In the school of discipleship, suffering for Christ is never an elective course, but a required core class.”
“Declining welfare rolls and increasing work participation rates demonstrate that Missouri is moving people away from welfare dependency and into jobs.”
“Beethoven’s music always struck me. Always. He had this fire you know. I remember reading this story of him going deaf and pushing himself into self-isolation and that’s where he became himself. And to me that was, wow. Don’t let anything poison your individuality. Be away, break away and look in not outward.”
“No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this point alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman, is superior to that of man; she knows the history of human flesh; she knows its cost; he does not.”
“The world that has made us can no longer contain us”
“I have no regrets about anything that I've ever done, about whom I've been involved with, so forth and so on.”
“No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”

Source : 1850 The Scarlet Letter, ch.20.
“he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with.”

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