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“... though we can populate our kitchens with more gadgets than ever before, fewer and fewer people today are sitting down to a home-cooked meal.”
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“Never interrupt an artist in the middle of his work! You are inflicting agony upon him. ”
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“I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading.”
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“To free yourself from the past you must break the rules of silence and compliance.”
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“... individuals learn faster than institutions and it is always the dinosaur's brain that is the last to get the new messages!”
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“It is nonsense to say that women have never had any power in the Churches: they have had immense power, but power in the form of influence, which is irresponsible power. Nobody can call to account the wife or mother who gets her way with husband or son and is known to be the real director of his opinion and vote. This is the form of power to which women, especially very able women, have been confined by their exclusion from responsible power.”
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“I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.”
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“Our thoughts, deeds, and words return to us sooner or later with astonishing accuracy.”