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The Bluest Eye Quotes

Autumn

There is a difference between being put out and being put outdoors. If you are put out, you go somewhere else; if you are outdoors, there is no place to go. The distinction was subtle but final. Outdoors was the end of something, an irrevocable, physical fact, defining and complementing our metaphysical condition. Being a

“I had much rather starve in England, a free woman than be a slave for the best man that ever breathed upon the American continent.”

James H. Cone • God of the Oppressed

"and you must be desperately homesick."

Charlotte Gilman • Herland

The notebook is not an end, but a means.

Phillip Lopate • Writers and Their Notebooks

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Alice Walker • The Color Purple

On Keeping a Notebook - Joan Didion

Joan Didion reflects on the personal and introspective nature of keeping a notebook, delving into memory, self-reflection, and the significance of past experiences.

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“I’m Mrs. Burns-Cooper,” said the woman, “and after this, well, it’s all right this time, because it’s your first time, but after this time always use the back entrance.” There is a pear in my icebox, and one end of rye bread. Except for three Irish potatoes and a cup of flour and the empty Christmas boxes, there is absolutely nothing on my shelf.

Margo Jefferson • Maud Martha

"I'd rather have you, Ellador, than all the children in the world. I'd rather have you with me—on your own terms—than not to have you."

Charlotte Gilman • Herland

She could neither resolve nor dismiss. There were these scraps of baffled hate in her, hate with no eyes, no smile and—this she especially regretted, called her hungriest lack—not much voice.