"Having a book is somewhat like having a baby, as many woman writers have observed before me: the conception, the long preparation, the wait, the growing heaviness (not of body in this case but of the spirit and the manuscript) toward the end, the initial delight at the sight of the product, fully formed and seemingly perfect, and then the usual postpartum depression. What will people whose opinion I care about, and those whose views I don't value but have weight in the world of reader, think of it?"

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Source : Doris Grumbach (2014). “Extra Innings: A Memoir”, p.7, Open Road Media

Doris Grumbach

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“I do feel a connection to the divine and to the infinite.”

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“When I hit the skins they all say, 'Damn Kane... You knock out the Bush like a presidential campaign!'”

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“I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.”
“If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person.”

Source : "What I see in the mirror: Rolf Harris" by Rolf Harris, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2011.
“It is a glorious thing to know that your Father God makes no mistakes in directing or permitting that which crosses the path of your life. It is the glory of God to conceal a matter. It is our glory to trust Him, no matter what.”
“I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.”
“Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people.”
“If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and injustices will all be left outside the door, then there is no good reason why talks cannot take place in an appropriate atmosphere.”

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