"Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family."

-- Francesca Annis

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“We'll dive into the earth together. And if one day a wild flower finds water and springs up from that piece of earth, its stem will have two blooms for sure: one will be you, the other me.”
“Against all the opposition in the world, I make this statement -Â that once I knew a magician. I was a witness of a performance that may some day be considered understandable, but that, in these primitive times, so transcends what is said to be the known that it is what I mean by magic.”
“What we call creation science makes no reference to the Bible. It says there are two possible explanations for the origin of the universe and living things: theistic, supernatural creation by an intelligent being, or nontheistic, mechanistic evolutionary theory that posits no goal and no purpose in the evolutionary process. We just happen to be here.”
“It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.”
“She asked where he lived. Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.”
“A viable new feminism must directly confront the realm of practice.”
“That's not so important to me, that time thing.”
“the skin of moss / holds the footprints of / star-footed birds.”

Source : Nancy Willard (2014). “A Nancy Willard Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.23, Open Road Media

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