It was a most insistent place but nobody seemed to be overwhelmed by all the insistence.
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ALICE WALKER She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch...
ALICE WALKER The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
ALICE WALKER For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that t...
ALICE WALKER A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of ye...
ALICE MEYNELL Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can writ...
ALICE WALKER The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where doe...
ALICE JAMES It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the childr...
ALICE WALKER One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any ...
ALICE JAMES The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself
conspicuous in the act of laughter.
ALICE MEYNELL Confidence in a bloke would be arrogance in a woman. For years, I didn't give interviews because...
ALICE LOWE We have met numerous times as a neighborhood. We are united in our opposition.
ALICE MOORE These men, whether laicized, defrocked, or restricted from ministry, continue to pose a threat to al...
ALICE MOORE I thought if someone is willing to donate them, we're willing to take them. It never hurts to ask.
ALICE MOORE We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title bo...
ALICE MOORE Having separate proceedings will allow the NRC to fully assess the specific characteristics of each ...
ALICE MOORE We were very concerned about a monopoly and really focused on opportunities to bring new retailers t...
ALICE MOORE Our goal here is to provide low prices on high-quality products and excellent services to consumers ...
ALICE MOORE The goal here is to provide opportunities for new retailers to enter our marketplace.
ALICE MOORE The capacity of the human organism to bear pain is, for our own protection, limited. All attempts to...
ALICE MILLER The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painfu...
ALICE MILLER ,,,It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has ...
ALICE MILLER