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Almost no mothers as almost no part-time, part-self persons-have created enduring literature... so far.

— Tillie Olsen Silences (1978)

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Sad is the country that requires women's studies, black and ethnic studies.

Kay Bonetti in 1986 article included in Conversations with Grace Paley (1997)

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

Tell Me a Riddle (1960)

I stand here ironing, and what you asked me moves tormented back and forth with the iron.

"It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched."

Tell Me a Riddle (1960)

"But there is more – to rebel against what will not let life be.”

Yonnondio: From the Thirties (1974)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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