She rose too, not as if to meet him or to flee from him, but quietly, as though the worst of the task were done and she had only to wait; so quietly that, as he came close, her outstretched hands acted not as a check but as a guide to him.


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During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impert...
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The community that stands behind a culture as a comprehensively productive personality must be so ex...
EDITH STEIN
Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mot...
EDITH STEIN
Whoever resorts regularly to the lessons of Holy Scripture as an apt pupil will take the Savior into...
EDITH STEIN
As the possessor of complete knowledge, God is not mistaken about people's experiences as people...
EDITH STEIN
Diverse forms of memory can have a variety of gaps. Thus it is possible for me to represent a past s...
EDITH STEIN
The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation ...
EDITH STEIN
One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And t...
EDITH STEIN
Because human development is the most specific and exalted mission of woman, studies in anthropology...
EDITH STEIN
Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for t...
EDITH STEIN
On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every co...
EDITH STEIN
Since Mary is the prototype of pure womanhood, the imitation of Mary must be the goal of girls' ...
EDITH STEIN
Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is t...
EDITH STEIN
The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every discipli...
EDITH STEIN
The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
EDITH STEIN
In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it ...
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