"Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we're down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is."

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Source : Barbara Johnson (1995). “Stick a Geranium in Your Hat and Be Happy!”, W Publishing Group

Barbara Johnson

#Inspirational Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Valleys Quotes

“I could have been a great many things.”
“True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.”
“Most readers will be shocked by the clear record of history linking Adolf Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church in a conspiracy to exterminate the Jews”
“Bach is a colossus of Rhodes, beneath whom all musicians pass and will continue to pass. Mozart is the most beautiful, Rossini the most brilliant, but Bach is the most comprehensive: he has said all there is to say.”
“One of the best investments we can make in a childâ€™s life is high-quality early education.”
“I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because I had â€œbecome a lesbianâ€â€”but because I had returned to my own body after years of alienation. The sensual details of life are the raw materials of a poetâ€”and with that falling-in-love I was able to return to living fully in my own fleshly self.”

Source : "Minnie Bruce Pratt: Feminist Poet Describes Call To Action, Struggle To Write" By Minnie Bruce Pratt, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2011.
“This could very easily be taken out of context, and I think it's funny now, but I remember looking in the mirror as a kid and, it would be like for an hour at a time, and I'd be like, 'I'm just so beautiful. Everybody is so lucky that they get to look at me.' And of course that changes as you get older, but I may have held on to that little-kid feeling that was me alone in my bathroom.”
“Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention.The professional writer discovers some aspect of the world and invents out of the speech of his time some particularly apt and original way of putting it down on paper.”

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