"A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child."

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Katherine Anne Porter

#Children Quotes #Wind Quotes #Spiders Quotes

“I liked women as a shape to dress.”
“Fighting for men back then, I think, was just more a way of life, especially if you were a soldier obviously.”
“When youâ€™re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that canâ€™t make up their minds. Perhaps itâ€™s a way of admitting that things canâ€™t ever bear the same certainty again.”
“You are inhuman brutes determined to rob us of our spiritual consolations and sweep away the moral foundations of our civilization, and on the other: You are obscurantist ignoramuses who'd like to shut down progress and drag us all back to the 16th century, with kings and priests telling us what to think.”
“We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.”
“Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.”
“We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.”
“Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are fascinating.”

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