A Boat Against the Current

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Showing posts with label Women Writers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Women Writers. Show all posts
Thursday, August 3, 2017

Quote of the Day (Anne Morrow Lindbergh, on ‘Good Communication’)

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“Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.” —American author-aviator Anne Morrow Lindbergh ...
Thursday, February 18, 2016

Quote of the Day (Virginia Woolf, on Why Women Succeeded More Quickly at Writing)

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“For ten and sixpence one can buy paper enough to write all the plays of Shakespeare — if one has a mind that way. Pianos and models, P...
Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Quote of the Day (Willa Cather, on ‘Unexpected Favors of Fortune’)

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“Unexpected favors of fortune, no matter how dazzling, do not mean very much to us. They may excite or divert us for a time, but when we lo...
Sunday, August 3, 2014

This Day in Literary History (‘Gigi’ Author Colette Dies in Storm)

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August 3, 1954—For a woman who had taken up acting upon her arrival in Paris 50 years before, few things could match for drama the death...
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