"It seems as if when you try to do just one thing and nothing but, you can't do it at all. You do everything better if there's more than one thing."

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Source : Nancy Hale (1988). “The Prodigal Women”, Plume

Nancy Hale

“Love is the fundamental relatedness in the universe.”
“Human science is an uncertain guess.”
“Don't let your present problems defeat you. The Chinese have a saying that if you live with a disaster for three years it will turn into a blessing. Look back in your own life at what appeared to be a devastating situation five or ten years ago. Many of those situations were the turning point that caused a number of great things to happen in your future. Regardless of what happens today, realize it is the beginning of something good.”
“All inner resistance is experienced as negativity in one form or another. All negativity is resistance. In this context, the two words are almost synonymous. Negativity ranges from irritation or impatience to fierce anger, from a depressed mood or sullen resentment to suicidal despair. Sometimes the resistance triggers the emotional pain body”
“So before everyone begins the big party for 'Brontosaurus' and celebrates this huge diversity of sauropod names, let's hold our horses.”
“I don't deny that I get excited, but that's what happens when you're passionate about what you do.”
“The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.”

Source : Belle Boyd (1865). “Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison”, p.53
“The LGBT movement has been coopted by the very institutions it once sought to transform,”

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