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When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.


Kate Bernheimer

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KATE CHRISTENSEN Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality...
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KATE CHRISTENSEN I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without makin...
KATE CHRISTENSEN Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human bod...
KATE CHRISTENSEN My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, w...
KATE CHRISTENSEN The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking fo...
KATE CHRISTENSEN Whenever possible, I use local, fresh ingredients, just because it tastes and feels better to eat an...
KATE CHRISTENSEN It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true - to have the kind of romantic bo...
KATE CHRISTENSEN Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
KATE CHRISTENSEN On Halloween, kids get to assume, for one night the outward forms of their innermost dread, and they...
KATE CHRISTENSEN There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather...
KATE CHRISTENSEN I remember the moment I first became aware of aging. I was 30. I looked down at my knees, and the sk...
KATE CHRISTENSEN It's interesting to try to imagine how early humans discovered what was edible and what wasn'...
KATE CHRISTENSEN My blog is a celebration of the unexpected, settled, happy life I find myself living in Portland, Ma...
KATE CHRISTENSEN I've never been an outward rebel, but inside, I just rebel deeply.
KATE CHRISTENSEN In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and sti...
KATE CHOPIN The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penet...
KATE CHOPIN Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of...
KATE CHOPIN When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills.
KATE CHOPIN But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exce...
KATE CHOPIN To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been ac...
KATE CHOPIN I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the...
KATE CHOPIN A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect ...
KATE CHOPIN It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating ...
KATE CHOPIN She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the s...
KATE CHOPIN