"I cannot understand any woman's wanting to be the first woman to do anything. ... It is a devastating burden and I could not take it, could not be a pioneer, a Symbol of Something Greater."

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Nora Ephron

#Women Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Pioneers Quotes

“I belong to Jesus. He must have the right to use me without consulting me.”
“Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.”
“It was the tenderness mingled with melancholy which we bring to a time that belongs irrevocably to the past, when a pale, delicate shadow rises from it bearing the lilies of the dead, and in it we find a forgotten likeness to ourselves. And that faint, wistful shadow, that pale scent, seemed to vanish away into a wide, full, warm stream - the life that now lay open before him.”
“Why donâ€™t you focus on where youâ€™re going and less on where you came from?”
“Women anchor me. They're there when I need them. They're sensitive to me, and I'm sensitive to them. I'm not saying I've loved that many women.”
“The ordinary naturalist is not sufficiently aware that when dogmatizing on what species are, he is grappling with the whole question of the organic world & its connection with the time past & with Man; that it involves the question of Man & his relation to the brutes, of instinct, intelligence & reason, of Creation, transmutation & progressive improvement or development. Each set of geological questions & of ethnological & zool. & botan. are parts of the great problem which is always assuming a new aspect.”
“Never trust anyone under one hundred!”
“Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.”

Source : Fiona McHugh, Lucy Maud Montgomery (1987). “The Anne of Green Gables Storybook: Based on the Kevin Sullivan Film of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Classic Novel”, Scarborough, Ont. : Firefly Books

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