"I'm truly grateful for my microwave, which allows me to easily clarify butter, steam vegetables, and - when I am really lazy - feed my three kids in less than five minutes."

-- Sara Gruen

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“I don't think any poetry is written that isn't primarily written to the self, in a way... I'm always talking to myself. But I seem to want somebody else to listen to it. I need, I do want an audience. So it's a strange thing. It's a very private conversation that then, you make public, kind of like the starfish flipping its stomach out.”

Source : "ArtWorks" with Jo Reed, www.arts.gov.
“We are not responsible for our feelings, as we are for our principles and actions. ... Our care, then, should be to look to our principles, and to avoid all anxiety about our emotions. Their nature can never be wrong where our course of action is right, and for their degree we are not responsible.”
“During the past five years, I've learned that time flies faster than you think, and because you only live once you have to learn from your mistakes, live your dreams and be accountable.”
“In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.”

Source : Hortense Calisher (2013). “On Keeping Women: A Novel”, p.264, Open Road Media
“Well, dojo is a traditional Japanese word for training hall.”
“Although some people think that life is a battle, it is actually a game of giving and receiving.”
“Of all the difficulties in a state, the temper of a true government most felicifies and perpetuates it; too sudden alterations distemper it. Had Nero tuned his kingdom as he did his harp, his harmony had been more honorable, and his reign more prosperous.”
“There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.”

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