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  1. Karen Cushman _ Rodzina

    {in the context of 1881} "Don't you want to get married and have babies? Mrs. Bergman used to say that women need-" "What women need is more exercise, shorter skirts, and their own way once in a while.
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  2. Karen Cushman _ The Midwife's Apprentice

    Alyce," she breathed. Alyce sounded clean and smart. You could love someone maned Alyce. She looked back at the face in the water. "This is me, Alyce." It was right. So the newly called Alyce shifted the pack on her shoulders, and with her head back and bare feet solid on the ground, she headed back to the midwife's cottage and never noticed when it grew dark, for heat and light were within her.
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  3. Karen Cushman _ Catherine, Called Birdy

    19TH DAY OF OCTOBER, Feast of Saint Frideswide, virgin, though why that should make someone a saint I do not know
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  4. Karen Cushman _ Catherine, Called Birdy

    I am commanded to write an account of my days: I am bit by fleas and plagued by family. That is all there is to say.
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  5. Karen Cushman _ Catherine, Called Birdy

    Corpus bones, I thought. To be wedded to this perfumed prig with his mouth in a knot and a frown always on his face!
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  6. Karen Cushman _ Catherine, Called Birdy

    More lady-lessons. It is impossible to do all and be all a lady must be and not tie oneself in a knot. A lady must walk erect with dignity, looking straight before her with eyelids low, gazing at the ground ahead, neither trotting nor running nor looking about nor laughing nor stopping to chatter. Her hands must be folded below her cloak while at the same time lifting her dress from the floor while at the same time hiding her mouth if her smile is unattractive or her teeth yellow. A lady must have six hands!
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  7. Karen Cushman _ The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

    Non che non creda in Dio. Ci credo. Solo non sono sicura di credere nel Paradiso, almeno non quanto credo nella biblioteca pubblica.
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  8. Karen Cushman _ Will Sparrow's Road

    , in my opinion, life is like juggling... Things come at you―balls, clubs, knives, sorrow, loss. Either you stand there and let them hit you or you throw them back , with all your might.
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  9. Karen Cushman _ Catherine, Called Birdy

    I cannot be a monk, nor a crusader, nor a tumbler. I must stay here and hem sheets until I die. My humors are greatly out of balance. I prescribe for myself wormwood and spiced wine and some of the custard left from supper, and I will let all of the dogs sleep in my bed."
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  10. Karen Cushman _ Will Sparrow's Road

    My pains are but trifling things compared to my joy.
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  11. Karen Cushman _ Catherine, Called Birdy

    My mother makes the best cider in Lincolnshire. She swears it is because she always includes a number of rotten apples in the mix. I was wondering if this could be true of people - if the world needs a few rotten people to make the sweetest mix. This would explain the problem of God allowing evil in the world.
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  12. Karen Cushman _ Rodzina

    I feel safer when you're here. You're so big and sturdy, like a beautiful tree I can lean on and not knock over.
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