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- 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 - )
- It is within the families themselves where peace can begin.
- Susan Partnow
- I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed.
- Etty Hillesum
- Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
- Robert Bresson
- Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.
- Adele Brookman
- We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.
- Norman Fischer
- I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
- Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986)
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