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  1. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Committed: A Skeptic Makes

    Because what my gradmother did with her fine coat {the loveliest thing she would ever own} is what all women of that generation {and before} did for their families and their husbands and their children. They cut up the finest and proudest parts of themselves and gave it all away. They repatterned what was theirs and shaped it for others. They went without. They were the last ones to eat at supper, and they were the first ones to get up every morning, warming the cold kitchen for another day spent caring for everyone else. This was the only thing they knew how to do. This was their guiding verb and their defining principle of life: They gave.
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  2. Angela Carter _ The Sadeian Woman: And the

    Because she is the channel of life, woman as mythic mother lives at one remove from life. A woman who defines herself through her fertility has no other option. So a woman who feels she has been deprived of motherhood is trebly deprived-of children; of the value of herself as mother; and of her own self, as autonomous being.
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  3. Virginia Woolf _ To the Lighthouse

    Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just as the way they were, demons of wickedness, angels of delight, never to see them grow up into long-legged monsters.
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  4. Gustave Flaubert _ Madame Bovary

    ...but now the love of Charles for Emma seemed to her a desertion from her tenderness, an encroachment upon what was hers, and she watched her son's happiness in sad silence, as a ruined man looks through the windows at people dining in his old house.
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  5. Ariel Levy _ The Rules Do Not Apply

    Anything seemed possible if you had ingenuity, money, and tenacity. But the body doesn't play by those rules.
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  6. Ariel Levy _ The Rules Do Not Apply

    But the truth is, the ten or twenty minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic. There is no adventure I would trade them for; there is no place I would rather have seen. -Thanksgiving in Mongolia, The New Yorker, November 18, 2013 Issue
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  7. bell hooks _ The Will to Change: Men,

    Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they chose to be intimate with are frozen in time, unable to allow themselves to love for fear that the loved one will abandon them.
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  8. L.M. Montgomery _ Anne's House of Dreams

    Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.
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  9. L.M. Montgomery _ Anne of the Island

    Anne looked at the white young mother with a certain awe that had never entered into her feelings for Diana before. Could this pale woman with the rapture in her eyes be the little black-curled, rosy-cheeked Diana she had played with in vanished schooldays? It gave her a queer desolate feeling that she herself somehow belonged only in those past years and had no business in the present at all.
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  10. Chinua Achebe _ Things Fall Apart

    When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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  11. Philippa Gregory _ The Red Queen

    But the magic moment when he walks alone has not yet happened, and I was praying he would do it before I have to leave. Now he will take his first step without me. And every step thereafter, I know. Every step of his life, and me not there to see him walk.
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  12. Betty Smith _ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

    Her time has come," answered Miss Lizzie. "That's why I didn't marry Harvey - long ago when he asked me. I was afraid of 'that'. So afraid." "I don't know," Miss Lizzie said. "Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than just to be safe." She waited until the next scream died away. "At least she knows she's living.
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