"I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything else as well. Devastation, balm, obsession, granting and receiving excessive value, and losing it again. It is recognition, often of what you are not but might be. It sears and it heals. It is beyond pity and above law. It can seem like truth."

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Source : Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.41, Knopf

Florida Scott-Maxwell

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“It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.”

Source : Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on women and revolution”, Oxford University Press
“I love having a man in my life, and being his woman at the end of the day. I know it's a dichotomy.”
“I never get tired of hearing compliments.”
“A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived from the very best sources that are open to dwellers on this troubled and passionate planet.”
“Nobody puts constraints on God. She doesn't like it.”

Source : "Father Andrew Greeley Extended Interview". Interview With Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. May 10, 2002.
“And if Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that cool props and special effects are not enough. Story comes first. Everything depends on story.”
“I never got into the gangs. Gangs are for followers.”
“I really wish there had been a way to phrase this as 'A thunder of worms.' Because I like that phrase. That's a phrase with soul. Worm thunder on the horizon, all is right with the cosmos.”

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