"[Harriet] hated math. She hated math with every bone in her body. She spent so much time hating it that she never had time to do it."

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Source : Louise Fitzhugh (2009). “Harriet the Spy”, p.127, Yearling

Louise Fitzhugh

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“There is no treasure equal to contentment and no virtue equal to fortitude.”

Source : "Holy Mother". "Prabuddha Bharatha" Journal, 1969.
“These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written, is already fertile in prospects and findings of the highest importance. The names of these organisms are very numerous and will have to be defined and in part discarded. The word microbe which has the advantage of being shorter and carrying a more general meaning, and of having been approved by my illustrious friend, M. LittrÃ©, the most competent linguist in France, is one we will adopt.”
“Writing isn't something I do, writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.”
“A man who loves good food has a way of making it gravitate toward his kitchen.”
“After Henry's treatment of her she wasn't sure that men could honestly love women but she wanted to believe it. She wanted to be told pretty things and for the frightening clip of her heart to slow to something more reasonable.”
“What the hell am I doing with my life?”
“Itâ€™s not the fear of writing that blocks people, itâ€™s fear of not writing well; something quite different.”
“I give people Ayn Rand with trappings,”

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