"What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead."

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Source : Fanny Fern (2015). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.70, Sheba Blake Publishing

Fanny Fern

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“I don't control life, but I can control how i react to it”
“The things that affect you most deeply - the things that will destroy you if you don't sing about them - are the things that you often end up singing about. It's really just about saying those things that everybody thinks but no one will say and making a connection by uncovering these diamonds that are inside of all of us that no one wants to tell each other about.”
“Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me of the plans I am to fulfill.”
“Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.”
“The most important invention that will come out of the corporate research lab in the future will be the corporation itself.”

Source : Harvard Business Review, www.wired.com. 1991.
“The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.”
“My name became a brand, and I'd love to say that was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing books. And I've stuck to that ever since.”
“What I find interesting is how close you can run the laughter along the seam of seriousness, and occasionally cross it, so that half the house genuinely doesn't know whether to laugh or cry. Custard pie humour is fairly universal, but at the other end, which I'm more interested in, there's the humour that hovers on the darkness, that walks in the shadow of something else, not always that obvious.”

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