The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. – Dolly Parton
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Words of a Woman
Toni Morrison
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives…...
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Isabel Allende
I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on...
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Claudia Rankine
Yes, and the body has memory. The physical carriage hauls more than its weight. The body is a...
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Megan Rapinoe
When I take a knee, I am facing the flag with my full body, staring straight into the heart of our...
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Brandi Carlile
You get discouraged, don’t you, girl? It’s your brother’s world for a while longer...
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Coretta Scott King
Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don’t...
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Heather Havrilesky
You can’t just sleep with men and learn about them that way. You have to observe and get to know...
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Ariel Levy
I wanted what we all want: everything. We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is...
3 months ago by
Dani Shapiro
It would be many years before I began to understand that all of life is practice: writing, driving,...
3 months ago by
Amelia Earhart
I believe that a girl should not do what she thinks she should do, but should find out through...
6 months ago by
Sheila Heti
Perhaps our vision of how life should be is actually no fun at all, and neglects to include the...
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Kamala Harris
If you are fortunate enough to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have...
7 months ago by
Mary Oliver
When Death Comes By Mary Oliver When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married...
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Eve Babitz
I’ve been in love with people and ideas in several cities and learned that the lovers...
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Rebecca Solnit
Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting...
8 months ago by
Mary Oliver
Coming Home By Mary Oliver When we are driving in the dark, on the long road to Provincetown, when...
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Octavia E. Butler
Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyze yourself, get rid of...
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