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3f6a47f Rilla was not fond of Mary Vance. She had never forgotten the humiliating day when Mary had chased her through the village with a dried codfish. L.M. Montgomery
784a17a Well, anyway, when I am grown up," said Anne decidedly, "I'm always going to talk to little girls as if they were too, and I'll never laugh when they use big words. I know from sorrowful experience how that hurts one's feelings." L.M. Montgomery
e4a92ff And every day in heaven will be more beautiful than the one before it Davy," assured Anne." beauty heaven l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
9e610f8 I do like a road, because you can be always wondering what is at the end of it. L.M. Montgomery
a321145 The faint laughter of winds was always about them and the colors of Mistawis, imperial and spiritual, under the changing clouds, were something that cannot be expressed in mere words. Shadows, too. Clustering in the pines until a wind shook them out and pursued them over Mistawis. They lay all day along the shores, threaded by ferns and wild blossoms. They stole around the headlands in the glow of the sunset, until twilight wove them all in.. L.M. Montgomery
0e028f0 If it had not rained on a certain May morning Valancy Stirling's whole life would have been entirely different. She would have gone, with the rest of her clan, to Aunt Wellington's engagement picnic and Dr. Trent would have gone to Montreal. But it did rain and you shall hear what happened to her because of it. L.M. Montgomery
9e5d440 Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with... making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself. names L.M. Montgomery
380f78c She isn't like any of the girls I ever knew, or any of the girls I was myself." "How many girls were you, Aunt Jimsie?" "About half a dozen, my dear." l.m. Montgomery
d38a41c No. I don't think I've ever been really lonely in my life," answered Anne. "Even when I'm alone I have real good company -- dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I LIKE to be alone now and then, just to think over things and TASTE them." L.M. Montgomery
0e7780f An old house that had lived its life long ago and so was very quiet and wise and a little mysterious. Also a little austere, but very kind. house houses L.M. Montgomery
b1b6a7e A child of about eleven, garbed in a very short, very tight, very ugly dress of yellowish-gray wincey. She wore a faded brown sailor hat and beneath the hat, extending down her back, were two braids of very thick, decidedly red hair. Her face was small, white and thin, also much freckled; her mouth was large and so were her eyes, which looked green in some lights and moods and gray in others. L.M. Montgomery
65df76e Favour is deceitful and beauty is vain, but I should not have minded finding that out for myself, if it had been so ordained. I have no doubt we will all be beautiful when we are angels, but what good will it do us then? L.M. Montgomery
f4865e7 Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it. L.M. Montgomery
e0f2d56 Our library isn't very extensive, but every book in it is a friend. L.M. Montgomery
1bc6e25 Grandmother's voice was ice. "They do not. Your mother has been happy all these years, till you began stirring up old memories. . She is daughter... no outsider shall ever come between us again... neither Andrew Stuart nor you nor anyone. And you will be good enough to remember that." L.M. Montgomery
66be19e Flour is so essential to cakes, you know. L.M. Montgomery
26f06f2 I am teaching Perry grammar. He says he wants to learn to speak properly. I told him he should not call his Aunt Tom an old beast but he said he had to because she wasn't a young beast. L.M. Montgomery
e7231da The happiest countries, like the happiest women, have no history. ignorance-is-bliss L.M. Montgomery
4a94920 The sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear. daily-living faith god trials L.M. Montgomery
fbab48f It's a very bad habit to put off disagreeable things... bad-habits disagreeable l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
d4aedba I hate to go mincing through life, afraid to take a single long step for fear somebody is watching. I want to "wave my wild tail and walk by my wild lone." There wasn't a bit of real harm in my opening that window and talking to Perry. There wasn't even any harm in his trying to kiss me. He just did it to tease me. Oh, I hate conventions. As you say, hang consequences.' 'But we can't hang 'em, Pussy - that's just the trouble. They're more l.. conventions harmless harmlessness judgment judgmental L.M. Montgomery
4682d2a I'm so glad my window looks east into the sun rising," said Anne, going over to Diana. "It's so splendid to see the morning coming up over those long hills and glowing through those sharp fir tops. It's new every morning, and I feel as if I washed my very soul in that bath of earliest sunshine. Oh," L.M. Montgomery
e5ea29b Your husband needs you to love him, but he also needs you to like him as a friend. Emerson Eggerichs
5a8e678 Nothing like having a bucket of cold water flung over you to make you see things as they really are! Enid Blyton
b6dad69 The moon was coming slowly up over the hill in front of them. The countryside was bathed in light, pale and cold and silvery. Everything could be seen quite plainly, and Lotta and Jimmy thought it was just like daytime with the colours missing. moon moonlight silvery Enid Blyton
602073e If I know something, I am not a victim. Victims don't know the meaning of their suffering. I am an enemy or a collaborator, not a victim. recovery victimhood Rachel Klein
a1511aa If women want a feminist revolution--ours is a world that is crying out for feminist revolution--then we must assume responsibility for drawing women together in political solidarity. That means we must assume responsibility for eliminating all the forces that divide women. Bell Hooks
f3b0e6e Our struggle is also a struggle of memory against forgetting. bell hooks
48e33e5 Maintaining connections with family and community across class boundaries demands more than just summary recall of where one's roots are, where one comes from. It requires knowing, naming, and being ever-mindful of those aspects of one's past that have enabled and do enable one's self-development in the present, that sustain and support, that enrich. One must also honestly confront barriers that do exist, aspects of that past that do dimini.. family bell hooks
13774ee No black woman writer in this culture can write 'too much'. Indeed, no woman writer can write 'too much'...No woman has ever written enough women-writers writing Bell Hooks
5d7d133 The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy bell hooks
ab08922 When we are loving, we openly and honestly express care, affection, responsibility, respect, commitment, and trust. bell-hooks expression love loving bell hooks
5c9a1b4 As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one another, in hearing one another's voices, in recognizing one another's presence. bell hooks
7a685b9 She wanted me to remember that pleasure is political--for the capacity to relax and play renews the spirit and makes it possible for us to come to the work of writing clearer, ready for the journey. (bell hooks about Toni Cade Bambara) pleasure toni-cade-bambara writing Bell Hooks
fd79ea9 Contrary to what some folks would have us believe, it is not tragic, even if undesirable, for a person to leave a liberal arts education not having read major works from this canon. Their lives are not ending. And the exciting dimension of knowledge is that we can learn a work without formally studying it. If a student graduates without reading Shakespeare and then reads or studies this work later, it does not delegitimize whatever formal c.. bell hooks
66761d1 Read everything you can push into your skull. Read your mother's diary. Read Assata. Read everything Gloria Steinem and bell hooks write. Read all of the poems your friends leave in your locker. Read books about your body written by people who have bodies like yours. Read everything that supports your growth as a vibrant, rebel girl human. Read because you're tired of secrets. Gabby Rivera
55be3b1 The "we" evoked here is all of us, black people/people of color, who are daily bombarded by a powerful colonizing whiteness that seduces us away from ourselves that negates that there is beauty to be found in any form of blackness that is not imitation whiteness." bell hooks
47bdc88 Many women do not join organized resistance against sexism precisely because sexism has not meant an absolute lack of choices. They may know they are discriminated against on the basis of sex, but they do not equate this with oppression. Under capitalism, patriarchy is structured so that sexism restricts women's behavior in some realms even as freedom from limitations is allowed in other spheres. The absence of extreme restrictions leads ma.. bell hooks
0590a0c Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books." - Bell Hooks" disability hope meltdown mental-health parenting social-skills stimming Win Quier
3ee1d8d The best sex and the most satisfying sex are not the same. I have had great sex with men who were intimate terrorists, men who seduce and attract by giving you just what you feel your heart needs then gradually or abruptly withholding it once they have gained your trust. And I have been deeply sexually fulfilled in bonds with loving partners who have had less skill and know-how. Because of sexist socialization, women tend to put sexual sati.. love-quotes men misogyny patriarchy sex sexual-attraction sexual-feelings sexual-satisfaction women bell hooks
8bbc973 Those who choose to walk on love's path are well served if they have a guide. That guide can enable us to overcome fear if we trust that they will not lead us astray or abandon us along the way. choice fear guidance guide love trust Bell Hooks
8c3c83c a deep smothering emptiness bell hooks
9104b0b Women will only be truly sexually liberated when we arrive at a place where we can see ourselves as having sexual value and agency irrespective of whether of not we are the objects of male desire. feminism sexuality bell hooks
e1cf98f How does one undermine the framework of racial reasoning? By dismantling each pillar slowly and systematically. The fundamental aim of this undermining and dismantling is to replace racial reasoning with moral reasoning, to understand the black freedom struggle not as an affair of skin pigmentation and racial phenotype but rather as a matter of ethical principles and wise politics, and to combat the black nationalist attempt to subordinate .. Cornel West