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Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your
old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart


Edith Wharton

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Th...
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EDITH STEIN The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elev...
EDITH STEIN If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.
EDITH STEIN My longing for truth was a single prayer.
EDITH STEIN This is a serious warning cry: Surrender without reservation to the Lord who has called us. This is ...
EDITH STEIN Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever...
EDITH SITWELL The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous...
EDITH SITWELL The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
EDITH SITWELL I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am...
EDITH SITWELL I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
EDITH SITWELL I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
EDITH SITWELL Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred a...
EDITH SITWELL A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
EDITH SITWELL People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looki...
EDITH SCHAEFFER The farm women are extremely well organized and are bound to be heard from.
EDITH ROGERS I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinki...
EDITH ROGERS But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should conf...
EDITH ROGERS The market town of Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire, was a popular 19th - century English spa. Its min...
EDITH PEARLMAN I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition b...
EDITH PEARLMAN I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be...
EDITH PEARLMAN I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity ...
EDITH PEARLMAN There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifyin...
EDITH PEARLMAN I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.
EDITH PEARLMAN Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobilit...
EDITH PEARLMAN In the late 1950s, self-esteem hadn't yet been invented. High schools saw their sole mission as ...
EDITH PEARLMAN The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and pr...
EDITH PEARLMAN I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devo...
EDITH PEARLMAN I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you'...
EDITH PEARLMAN