I was once kissed on the lips by a giraffe, and I don't think I've ever got over it.
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JOANNA NATHAN There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.
JOANNA FIELD I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand.
JOANNA SOUTHCOTT Helping others is the key duty for everyone on this earth who is remotely capable to do so.
JOANNA KRUPA Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even whe...
JOANNA BROOKS I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can'...
JOANNA SCOTT If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the...
JOANNA SCOTT I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the ...
JOANNA TROLLOPE When I was 18, I took it for granted and was eager to move on to the bigger cities like Boston and t...
JOANNA GOING In order to survive as a race, as a planet, you must learn to share light. There is no other way.
JOANNA GAWN To have real issues to delve into, research-wise, always makes it a lot more satisfying to me. I can...
JOANNA GOING The objective is to raise the profile of the city to its residents and visitors.
JOANNA ORMESHER Here we go then," Dad says. "Motoring towards our dreams, Bridge."
"You shouldn't follow dreams...
JOANNA CAMPBELL I have a collection of lucky pennies, and I like to carry some of them with me. So far, they seem to...
JOANNA GARCIA The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, ou...
JOANNA NEWSOM Typing was, as the placement agency lady had assured me, like riding a bike: my fingers remembered t...
JOANNA RAKOFF I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are comp...
JOANNA NEWSOM The voiceless and most defenseless ones are the animals, so most of my attention goes to them.
JOANNA KRUPA One pretty amazing thing we learned early on was that the more time we spent together, the better ou...
JOANNA GAINES I don't mean to be trite about abortion, but I do feel it's a woman's body, and I don...
JOANNA CASSIDY The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble
with women, too."
JOANNA RUSS As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frogs in jest.
But the frogs die in ...
JOANNA RUSS There's no being out too late in Whileaway, or up too early, or in the wrong part of town, or unesco...
JOANNA RUSS While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort...
JOANNA SCOTT There's a lot of weight on the shoulders of a single parent, and that's taken a lot of energ...
JOANNA CASSIDY I finally believed it was actually a beautiful thing to be unique and to be different.
JOANNA GAINES In the first movement, our infancy as a species, we felt no separation from the natural world around...
JOANNA MACY Of course, even when you see the world as a trap and posit a fundamental separation between liberati...
JOANNA MACY One of my best friends had a tough time getting pregnant, and her situation had me really thinking a...
JOANNA KRUPA How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they...
JOANNA SCOTT It's not that the authors are unskilled, but we must frequently venture outside our areas of origina...
JOANNA RUSS If you are a woman and wish to become pre-eminent in a field, it's a good idea to (a) invent it and ...
JOANNA RUSS When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and ea...
JOANNA RUSS I think it no accident that the myth of the isolated achievement so often promotes women writers' le...
JOANNA RUSS