“And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there.”
― Dandelion Wine
― Dandelion Wine
“Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women."
[Commencement Address, Wellesley College, 1996]”
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[Commencement Address, Wellesley College, 1996]”
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“Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.”
― The Unexpected Universe: Masterpiece Essays on Nature, Philosophy, and the Human Condition
― The Unexpected Universe: Masterpiece Essays on Nature, Philosophy, and the Human Condition
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