"Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's because older women are more confident, or just that we don't care any more. But that pared-down approach is the same with the sentences I write; I take out adjectives and adverbs and keep the description to a minimum."

-- Tracy Chevalier

#Writing Quotes #Adjectives Quotes #Care Quotes

“Women have nine months more experience than you do - nine months to prepare for being a parent.”
“I can say exactly what I feel about any issue, and I'm going to do that.”
“The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments . There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience.”
“Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong .”
“It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.”
“A lot of the best work I've ever done started out as something completely different because I gave myself permission to have space around my time and expectations.”
“No philosopher was ever apathetic. If there is no love, it is not philosophy.”
“If we only look within, we will see he Light as if we were seeing our own image in a mirror. (122)”

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