"Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child."

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Source : Barbara Damrosch (1982). “Theme Gardens”, Workman Publishing Company

Barbara Damrosch

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“The tours are campaigns.”
“I think having healthy relationships makes me feel much more confident and available to do good work as an actor.”
“I was given the name by my brother when I was about eleven or twelve years old. He was older than me, and around that age I was starting to get into girls, and when they would call the house for him, and when he was not there, I would try to talk to them. I was trying to be the man and trying to get them to come and see me, not worrying about him. When he found out... he started calling me Ice Cube as a joke because he said I was trying to be too cool. I just liked it and started telling everybody in the hood "my name is Ice Cube."”

Source : "The Believer Interview: Ice Cube". Interview with Linda Saetre, blog.longreads.com. December 2003.
“Remember our heritage is our power; we can know ourselves and our capacities by seeing that other women have been strong.”
“All the time we wondered and wondered, who is this person coming/growing/turning/floating/swimming deep, deep inside.”
“Marriage: The most expensive way to get your laundry done.”
“Many people have said to me, "What a pity you had such a big family to raise." "Think of the novels and the short stories and the poems you never had time to write because of that." And I looked at my children and I said, "These are my poems, these are my stories."”
“Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.”

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