"The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, â€œHere I am,â€ but to write a novel, hold it up and say, â€œHere YOU are."

-- Rita Mae Brown

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“A short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of tiny yellow flowers falling. They fell on the town all through the night in a silent storm, and they covered the roofs and blocked the doors and smothered the animals who slept outdoors. So many flowers fell from the sky that in the morning the streets were carpeted with a compact cushion and they had to clear them away with shovels and rakes so that the funeral procession could pass by.”
“We cannot change anything unless we accept it.”
“I'm a hundred-and-one years old and at my age, honey, I can say what I want!”

Source : Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.11, Kodansha America
“CEOs are no different than the guy in the mailroom. They all have to learn how to manage better the risk created by our increasingly risk-shifting world.”
“These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.”
“My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals.”
“The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten.”
“Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it, and to these the author has a claim. Yet many people think that when they buy a book they buy with it the right to abuse the author.”

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