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What She Said, August 6: Margaret Atwood
“A word after a word after a word is power.”
—Margaret Atwood
What She Said, August 3: Virginia Woolf
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
–Virginia Woolf
What She Said, August 2: Erica Jong
The trick is not how much pain you feel, but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
–Erica Jong
What She Said, August 1: Anne Sexton
Everyone in me is a bird
I am beating all my wings
–Anne Sexton
What She Said, July 31: Sharon Salzberg
Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you’re doing.
–Sharon Salzberg
What She Said, July 30: Sharon Olds
I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.
–Sharon Olds
What She Said, July 29: May Sarton
Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.
–May Sarton
What She Said, July 28: Ellen Bass
It’s a hard time to be human. We know too much and too little.
–Ellen Bass
What She Said, July 27: Ilyse Kusnetz
Sometimes time is like watching whales
breach fearless with instinct and practice,
as you and I learned to be
day by day, moment inside moment―
moving toward each other like memory
passed one body to another.
―Ilyse Kusnetz
(from the poem, “Sometimes Time”)
The Gloria Sirens 