Writing sentences is difficult whatever their subject. It is no less difficult to write sentences in a recipe than sentences in MOBY-DICK. So you might as well write MOBY-DICK.
―Annie Dillard
What She Said, July 22: Annie Dillard
What She Said, July 21: A Bride’s Toast to Her Groom, From the Movie, LEAP YEAR
May you never steal, lie, or cheat, but if you must steal, then steal away my sorrows, and if you must lie, lie with me all the nights of my life, and if you must cheat, then please cheat death because I couldn’t live a day without you.
― A Bride’s Toast to Her Groom, From the Movie, LEAP YEAR
What She Said, July 20: Natalie Goldberg
Writers live twice. They go along with their regular life, are as fast as anyone in the grocery store… but there’s another part of them that they have been training. The one that lives everything a second time. That sits down and sees their life again and goes over it.
― Natalie Goldberg
What She Said, July 19: Dorothy Height
No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. ― Dorothy Height
What She Said, July 18: Hannah Arendt
In order to go on living, one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. ― Hannah Arendt
What She Said, July 17: Simone de Beauvoir
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.― Simone de Beauvoir
Call for Submissions: “Hear Me Roar”
The Gloria Sirens feel there are stories that need to be amplified. We are seeking submissions of personal essay / memoir narratives between 200 and 300 words about a time you ‘took a risk to speak your truth to power.’
What She Said, July 16: Carolyn See
Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.
—Carolyn See
What She Said, July 15: Oprah Winfrey
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. — Oprah Winfrey
What She Said, July 14: Annie Dillard
Write as if you were dying― Annie Dillard
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