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- The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.
- Edith Sodergran
- The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
- Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), Lynn on Ideas
- I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
- She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation.
- Willa Cather (1873 - 1947), The Song of the Lark
- The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
- The particular human chain we're part of is central to our individual identity.
- Elizabeth Stone
- Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious.
- Gloria Steinem (1934 - )
- Heirlooms we don't have in our family. But stories we've got.
- Rose Cherin
- We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
- It is within the families themselves where peace can begin.
- Susan Partnow
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