"The girls who come into my library adore the prettiness of fairies, theminiature-ness. But they are also nature lovers and lovers of adventure -- the future wild women of America. I couldn't help thinking that these little girls who love fairies deserve something lively."

-- Laura Amy Schlitz

#Girl Quotes #Adventure Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“If you live in an acquisitive society you are likely to be acquisitive, but it isn't deeply rooted in human nature, except in the sense that it's deeply rooted to be psychologically receptive to your peers and to advertising.”
“All would live long, but none would be old.”
“And she loved a man who was made out of nothing. A few hours without him and right away sheâ€™d be missing him with her whole body, sitting in her office surrounded by polyethylene and concrete and thinking of him. And every time sheâ€™d boil water for coffee in her ground-floor office, sheâ€™d let the steam cover her face, imagining it was him stroking her cheeks, her eyelids and sheâ€™d wait for the day to be over, so she could go to her apartment building, climb the flight of stairs, turn the key in the door, and find him waiting for her, naked and still between the sheets of her empty bed.”
“The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.”
“The act of writing bears something in common with the act of love. The writer, at his most productive moments, just flows. He gives of that which is uniquely himself. He makes himself naked, recording his nakedness in the written word. Herein lies some of the terror which frequently freezes a writer, preventing him from producing. Herein, too, lies some of the courage that must be entailed in letting others learn how one has experienced or is experiencing the world.”
“A specialist is someone who does everything else worse.”
“Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.”
“Let's forgive the past and who we were then. Let's embrace the present and who we're capable of becoming. Let's surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.”

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