"Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood."

-- Patricia Hill Collins

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“If you take a character and you call him a frog, or like Rowlf, our dog, call him a dog, you immediately give the audience a handle.”
“The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game.”
“It is resignation and contentment that are best calculated to lead us safely through life. Whoever has not sufficient power to endure privations, and even suffering, can never feel that he is armor proof against painful emotions,--nay, he must attribute to himself, or at least to the morbid sensitiveness of his nature, every disagreeable feeling he may suffer.”
“Taste is improved by cultivation.”
“There is no shame in strategic retreat if it lets you remain strong enough to go after the enemy later.”
“The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.”

Source : Elena Ferrante (2005). “The Days of Abandonment”, p.83, Penguin
“Perhaps we were each allotted only a certain amount of love - enough for only an initial meeting - a serendipitous clumsiness. When it leaves to find others, the difficulty begins because we are faced with our humanness, our past, our very being.”
“But it was in this moment, lying in bed late at night, that I first realized that the voice in my headâ€”the running commentary that had dominated my field of consciousness since I could rememberâ€”was kind of an asshole.”

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