Think before you speak. Read before you think.
― Fran Lebowitz
What She Said, July 26: Fran Lebowitz
What She Said, July 25: Adrienne Rich
She died a famous woman denying
her wounds
denying
her wounds came from the same source as her power
―Adrienne Rich
(from the poem, “Power”)
What She Said, July 24: Anna Quindlen
I am changing his diaper, he is kicking and complaining… he weighs little more than a large sack of flour and yet he has laid waste to the living room… No one cares about order, he is our order, we revolve around him. AI look at his… face and unfocused eyes and fall in love with him… and think… I will do anything for you as long as we both shall live, world without end, amen.
―Anna Quindlen, from NANAVILLE
What She Said, July 23: Meghan O’Rourke
How long will the light go on?
Longer than you. Still you ought to live like a city,
rich and fierce at the center.
―Megan O’Rourke
(from the poem, “Halflife”)
What She Said, July 22: Annie Dillard
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 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
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