"I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity."

-- Barbara Goldsmith

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“I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day.”

Source : Mary MacLane (2014). “Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader”, p.24, Petrarca Press
“Everybody always says that I'm the girl next door, which makes me think that y'all must have a lot of weird next-door neighbours.”
“The horse is, like man, the most beautiful and the most miserable of creatures, only, in the case of man, it is vice or property that makes him ugly. He is responsible for his own decadence, while the horse is only a slave.”
“In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of self and the natural world, and her skillful use of that language. Whether she turns her attention to the act of eating an apricot 'the color of shame and dawn,' or to 'the omnipotence of light,' or to grief when 'All the greens of summer have blown apart,' her linking of unique images, her energetic wit and whimsy, her compassionate investment in life, always bring new pleasures and perceptions to the reader.”
“The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism”
“I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.”
“You should really stay true to your own style. When I first started writing, everybody said to me, 'Your style just isn't right because you don't use the really flowery language that romances have.' My romances - compared to what's out there - are very strange, very odd, very different. And I think that's one of the reasons they're selling.”
“I don't like the idea of agents in a typical form. The idea of agents, to me, brings up the idea of a man in a very boring suit who's not very good looking and doesn't have much attention to style.”

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