"We, who have had tender, perfect mothers, would like to make it law that the other kind should always be called 'she-parents,' or 'female progenitors,' or any other descriptive title, but not profane the sacred name of mother!"

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Source : Florence L. Barclay (2006). “The Rosary: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.44, ReadHowYouWant.com

Florence L. Barclay

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“People call you this or that. But I can't respond because then it seems like I'm defensive, you know, what does it matter, really?”
“It's a real buzz, even in front of 20 people, to make a complete fool of yourself. But people seemed to like it. And the thing is, if people started throwing tomatoes at me, I wouldn't have gone on with it.”
“Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude.”

Source : Robertson Davies (1952). “Tempest-tost”, Clarke Irwin
“Squash was my livelihood and as in business, I had to stay on top.”
“Lily Brown writes with and against things in poems that are coiled up tight as springs (or snakes). A believer in the power of the line, she writes, 'I think the plastics/and sink them' then 'Where is the sand/man hiding the dirt.' These terse, biting poems will make you look around and wonder.”
“Some distance away is a white azalea bush which stuns me with its stately beauty.____ This is pristine natural beauty. it is irrepressible, seeks no reward, and is without goal, a beauty derived neither from symbolism nor metaphor and needing neither analogies nor associations.”

Source : "Soul Mountain". Book by Gao Xingjian, 1989.
“I learned the value of focus. I learned it is better to do one product well than two products in a mediocre way.”
“When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy.”

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