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Whenever I open a book about jazz, I turn to the index and look for Lennie Tristano, the incredible ...
CAROLYN SEE Life is a matter of courtship and wooing, flirting and chatting.
CAROLYN SEE Ishmael Beah was born and spent his childhood in Sierra Leone as that sad but beautiful West African...
CAROLYN SEE 'The Talk-Funny Girl' opens with a glum picture of a desperately poor rural New England fami...
CAROLYN SEE If you are in any way squeamish or genteel, skip 'Gillespie and I.' If you'd like to kno...
CAROLYN SEE What is 'cool,' anyway? Maybe it's Warne Marsh, almost totally obscure and penniless, co...
CAROLYN SEE I've been at the very bottom of poverty, and it's not so bad. It's even kind of interest...
CAROLYN SEE 'A Long Way Gone' says something about human nature that we try, most of the time, to ignore...
CAROLYN SEE I don't believe you can buy or sell 'cool.'
CAROLYN SEE I hope someday to see California literature become a part of mainstream American literature, and I h...
CAROLYN SEE Very much as men project weird fantasies on women, the people in New York project weird fantasies on...
CAROLYN SEE I don't think I'm interested in writing women's novels anymore.
CAROLYN SEE I'd never heard of Robert Hellenga; I didn't think a book with the name 'Snakewoman of L...
CAROLYN SEE

I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles...
LISA SEE

We hug, but there are no tears. For every awful thing that's been said and done, she is my sister. P...
LISA SEE

May and I are sisters. We'll always fight, but we'll always make up as well. That's what sisters do:...
LISA SEE

Sisters, as you know, also have a unique relationship. This is the person who has known you your ent...
LISA SEE

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up...
LISA SEE

I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointe...
LISA SEE

I want a marriage of companions—one of shared lives and shared poems,' he murmured. 'If we were hu...
LISA SEE

Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. T...
LISA SEE When I read his book Dark Clouds at Dawn I thought that, my goodness, this is probably the only ex-d...
MARTYN SEE

كلُّ من يقولُ إن النساء لا يتمتعن بنفوذ على قرارات أزوا...
LISA SEE

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
LISA SEE

Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.
LISA SEE

I write a thousand words a day.
LISA SEE

Sometimes you think you have all of tomorrow ahead of you,’ Mama often said. ‘When the sun is sh...
LISA SEE

I don't want her to either, which is exactly what I've been saying. Still, there's a part of me that...
LISA SEE

There was a typhoon the day you were born... It is said that a Dragon born in a storm will have a pa...
LISA SEE

We view the world very much as peasants in the countryside have for millennia. they've alsways said ...
LISA SEE

We may look and act modern in many ways, but we can’t escape what we are... obedient chinese daugh...
LISA SEE

Mama used to tell us a story about a cicada sitting high in a tree. It chirps and drinks in dew, obl...
LISA SEE

It has been said that marriages are arranged by Heaven, that destiny will bring even the most distan...
LISA SEE

When you're held underwater, you think only of air.
LISA SEE

I focus my eyes on my jade bracelet. All these years and for all the years after I die, it will rema...
LISA SEE

Because inside we still carry the dreams of what could have been, of what should have been, of what ...
LISA SEE

Her heart was like a great road with room for everyone.
LISA SEE

But then this is how it is for women everywhere. You experience one lapse in conscience, in how low ...
LISA SEE

Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like...
LISA SEE

A dragon doesn't surrender. A dragon fights fate. This is not some loud, roaring feeling. It feels m...
LISA SEE

As I speak, I’m reminded of the old saying that diseases go in through the mouth, disasters come o...
LISA SEE

It's funny how in that moment I see things clearly. Am I beaten down? Yes. Have I allowed myself to ...
LISA SEE

People say you need to be strong, smart, and lucky to survive hard times, war, a natural disaster, o...
LISA SEE

When the sun is shining, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your hou...
LISA SEE

Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.
LISA SEE

I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything di...
LISA SEE

What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be ...
LISA SEE

i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay
LISA SEE

When you don’t have much, having less isn’t so bad.
LISA SEE

So often, we're told that women's stories are unimportant. After all, what does it matter what happe...
LISA SEE

We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat &...
LISA SEE

Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.
LISA SEE

The Story of the Woman with Three Brothers"

A woman once had three brothers. They all had...
LISA SEE I like men. I like the sound of their voices, the way they think. They're more sensitive than wo...
CAROLYN JONES

A canner exceedingly canny
One morning remarked to his granny:

CAROLYN WELLS

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.
CAROLYN WELLS People say, 'Well, why don't they get another job, why don't they pick themselves up by ...
CAROLYN CHUTE

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate -...
CAROLYN WELLS

The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we...
CAROLYN WELLS

The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry;
The books that we would like to read...
CAROLYN WELLS It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.
CAROLYN LLEWELLYN

Magnesium deficiency can produce symptoms of anxiety or depression, including muscle weakness, fatig...
CAROLYN DEAN

Children have more need of models than of critics.
CAROLYN COATS

Ideas move fast when their time comes.
CAROLYN HEILBRUN

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
CAROLYN WELLS

If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.
CAROLYN KENMORE

Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or sil...
CAROLYN KIZER We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long a...
CAROLYN MALONEY

Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World cou...
CAROLYN MURPHY

My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympatheti...
CAROLYN MACKLER

The best anti-aging advice I've ever received? Drink a lot of water and have a plant-based diet....
CAROLYN MURPHY In the same way that the women's movement of the seventies and eighties brought rape and incest into...
CAROLYN SPRING And if we do speak out, we risk rejection and ridicule. I had a best friend once, the kind that you ...
CAROLYN SPRING Bemoaning my existence wasn’t changing my existence.
CAROLYN SPRING As a child, the best way to survive was to be still, to submit—to do nothing that might incur furt...
CAROLYN SPRING To be loved and to love, takes courage. To be fully seen is incredibly rare and breathtaking. We low...
CAROLYN RIKER Whenever I write, I write what I find to be the way people are. I never use any symbolism at all, bu...
CAROLYN CHUTE

I had dreamed of visiting Bali for many years and because I had an extended family of Balinese frien...
CAROLYN MURPHY

My favorite hotel is the Villa Alilla in Bali. The setting is pure bliss, overlooking the ocean of U...
CAROLYN MURPHY

I didn't learn much about writing at Sarah Lawrence, but I learned a lot about the sources of po...
CAROLYN KIZER

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
CAROLYN WELLS There is a slave trade still in this country—yes, the real and horrific sex and human trafficking ...
CAROLYN SPRING It was that culture of denial that allowed my abuse to take place to start with. Did you know that i...
CAROLYN SPRING

I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as wor...
CAROLYN WELLS I was born on the night of Samhain, when the barrier between the worlds is whisper-thin and when mag...
CAROLYN MACCULLOUGH

You see airbrushed images of me, but I know the person who's walking barefoot, dodging dog poo i...
CAROLYN MURPHY With them having to sit the bench..., it took us completely out of our game.
CAROLYN WRIGHT I never relaxed because I know they're the kind of team that's going to keep fighting.
CAROLYN WRIGHT We talked about it during the week and right before the game. We stressed that we wanted to win this...
CAROLYN WRIGHT We're Utah. We'll be running 90-95 percent (capacity).
CAROLYN WRIGHT I felt real good about their effort tonight.
CAROLYN WRIGHT People have actually stood in line at the supermarkets to vote and sign to vote. We now know we are ...
CAROLYN WRIGHT They're not one of those teams who will sit down to a spanking. They will play you to the end.
CAROLYN WRIGHT We're excited to host. It's big to have that home court advantage because more of your fans will com...
CAROLYN WRIGHT With the big lead, I wasn't comfortable. I knew they (Sidney Lanier) would keep on fighting. They wa...
CAROLYN WRIGHT This is probably the second-most devastating loss of my career. We should have won this one and we l...
CAROLYN WRIGHT I'm feeling much better. I have a lot of people praying for me, and I have faith.
CAROLYN WITHERSPOON I tried to stay on top of it. He was a challenge there. He's always been very smart -- not because o...
CAROLYN WITHERSPOON You would not be able to find one person in this family that didn't think that they could beat anybo...
CAROLYN WITHERSPOON This is just another valley. We're going to have mountaintops again.
CAROLYN WITHERSPOON For a kid to see a friend [Collins] experience something like that, when you hear the same term, you...
CAROLYN WITHERSPOON He has good days and bad days. Sometimes he gets insecure about it because I have days when I don't ...
CAROLYN WITHERSPOON It makes it really easy.
CAROLYN WILMAN Now that sounds like a lot but its not a lot when you think of how many a day. I submit about 200 a ...
CAROLYN WILMAN We won a romantic weekend away to Quebec?a year's supply of gold fish snacks?a year's supply of pizz...
CAROLYN WILMAN I think it's past $80,000 in five years.
CAROLYN WILMAN He does this every year to get out to as many counties as he can. He likes to talk to his constituen...
CAROLYN WILLIAMS No, I haven't heard anything about it.
CAROLYN WILLIAMS The message is getting out to the public that nursing is a terrific field. We need the resources to ...
CAROLYN WILLIAMS Nursing has become so much more competitive.
CAROLYN WILLIAMS But I don't think people are sufficiently concerned about this situation ... If we don't have enough...
CAROLYN WILLIAMS Nursing education is very people-intensive. You can't just put one more chair in the classroom.
CAROLYN WILLIAMS Nor can medical schools charge what it costs to train a physician.
CAROLYN WILLIAMS We need money that schools can use to expand classes. A lot of this depends on the sort of support t...
CAROLYN WILLIAMS

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
CAROLYN WELLS

To make a library it takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interes...
CAROLYN WELLS

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention
CAROLYN WELLS

Of two evils, choose the prettier
CAROLYN WELLS

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate -...
CAROLYN WELLS

We are not the barbecue police. We are not in charge of security.
CAROLYN WELLS

Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, Ho...
CAROLYN WELLS

You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on...
CAROLYN WELLS I've really enjoyed this season. I've learned a lot and gotten a lot of experience.
CAROLYN WARREN I was a little intimidated at first because I'm just a sophomore. I think I psyched myself out. Now ...
CAROLYN WARREN With her I know it's going to be a very good match. Even if I don't win it's a good learning experie...
CAROLYN WARREN It's a spirited rivalry. This match just carries a little more weight.
CAROLYN WARREN This is a different kind of scary. There's more pressure out here. I put a lot of pressure on myself...
CAROLYN WARREN Dictating play is so important, and coming out and taking control. That's going to be one of my goal...
CAROLYN WARREN It was a wonderful surprise. We did not know that Bertha had remembered the symphony in her will unt...
CAROLYN VALACICH We submitted an application, and we were one of two orchestras (to be chosen for 2007) ? the other i...
CAROLYN VALACICH It's a huge contribution by them (Davidson Companies). The only way we got him here was to be able t...
CAROLYN VALACICH I wish I had three times as many tickets. The symphony office has been besieged in the last few week...
CAROLYN VALACICH We must have seen 600 clients and agencies before we launched the paper. We talked them through it -...
CAROLYN MCCALL Our integrated marketing and retail strategy aimed to put the Guardian in the hands of as many peopl...
CAROLYN MCCALL [Because advertisements generally cost less in tabloids than in broadsheets, the paper has focused o...
CAROLYN MCCALL The key for peace in Burundi is continuation of dialogue. One person leaves, but the UN remains in t...
CAROLYN MCASKIE I believe now there's no justification for spending $300 million a year in keeping foreign troops in...
CAROLYN MCASKIE We are facing the real prospect in two months from now of another catastrophe which can be averted w...
CAROLYN MCASKIE It's pretty obvious that the response that will be needed will be prolonged food aid relief over nex...
CAROLYN MCASKIE Is this the day Matt will call and tell me he's coming home? Is this the day the Army will call and ...
CAROLYN MAUPIN We put 10 pictures inside each box with a little note asking them to please help us find him, and al...
CAROLYN MAUPIN I wonder if he hears the bombs of the soldiers and their rifles.
CAROLYN MAUPIN We will not let Matt be forgotten. I don't want him left behind. I don't want him left there.
CAROLYN MAUPIN They had been putting out posters with a very dark picture of Matt that didn't look much like him. W...
CAROLYN MAUPIN It's a lot of money, but we are determined to do this, to remember those who have given their lives.
CAROLYN MAUPIN Twice now they've dropped the ball where we've learned about something happening with our son from o...
CAROLYN MAUPIN Even though you see a smile, your heart still aches.
CAROLYN MAUPIN I didn't carry on very well the first three or four months. Then one day I decided it was time for m...
CAROLYN MAUPIN The information we received was helpful and it showed the Army is actively following up leads concer...
CAROLYN MAUPIN Because it's important. Laws can be reversed, Supreme Court decisions can be overturned, gender clas...
CAROLYN MALONEY It's just aggravating, ... Hale is retired somewhere, fat and happy, while others who are accused of...
CAROLYN MALONEY It merely says, and I quote, 'equality of rights shall not be denied or abridged by the United State...
CAROLYN MALONEY Have you tried to understand why the increase in violence even though the amount of policing and mil...
CAROLYN MALONEY We're apparently not good enough for the Republican convention, ... They would rather stay on a floa...
CAROLYN MALONEY George W. Bush's first appointment, Dick Cheney, makes it crystal clear that Bush's judicial appoint...
CAROLYN MALONEY Victims of sexual assault experience traumatic, life-changing events, ... We should work to protect ...
CAROLYN MALONEY by implying that pro-choice Americans have the same values as terrorists, Hughes insulted millions o...
CAROLYN MALONEY We have to invest in our infrastructure if we are going to go forward in our city and our state,
CAROLYN MALONEY I can see you are a former teacher. You are very clear.
CAROLYN MALONEY I did really gain an appreciation for the strong work ethic of the Japanese people. I had the opport...
CAROLYN LUND Despite the cultural boundaries, it was easier to live overseas. They would go out of their way to h...
CAROLYN LUND [The Japanese] have their clocks down to the second; they're never late, so it's always very dependa...
CAROLYN LUND I realized that I'm not special anymore. I'm just a number. That was hard. I was used to being in th...
CAROLYN LUND Culture shock was worse coming back than it was going to Japan. My mom had to worry again.
CAROLYN LUND I remember my second night. I got my first taste of sushi. It was revolting. We kind of jumped right...
CAROLYN LUND She was his angel, and he was her angel.
CAROLYN LAYNE Her attention to detail was fabulous. People loved working with her and for her.
CAROLYN LAYNE We all say the same thing. She was the most gentle, loving person. How could this happen? Who did th...
CAROLYN LAYNE This was truly horrific and tragic, because they were so close to moving into their dream home. Ever...
CAROLYN LAYNE She met Daniel right when I met her. They were truly soul mates. ... They're both incredibly passion...
CAROLYN LAYNE

If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches. - Mannequin: My Life as a...
CAROLYN KENMORE she said.
CAROLYN JONES I love books. I've always been involved with books and I wanted to help the library in any way possi...
CAROLYN JONES to make people aware of the meeting.
CAROLYN JONES It's so hard. You just want to make it better any way you can.
CAROLYN JONES It takes my breath away that they do this with volunteers.
CAROLYN JONES Dr. King's voice was a call to thought and discussion. And that is what we are here to celebrate ton...
CAROLYN JOHNSON Before this law was passed, a tribal conviction was kind of nowhere.
CAROLYN JOHNSON The students are selected based on recommendations that come from their instructors and who have dem...
CAROLYN JOHNSON When I helped out last year, it seemed like it took us longer. So we decided when it was our turn, w...
CAROLYN JOHNSON You don't see them very often. Also the groin is repeated up here in the fabulous room up in the gra...
CAROLYN JENNINGS We have all private bathrooms and all private bedrooms leading out to balconies.
CAROLYN JENNINGS She's having the party a little early in the phase, but she really cares for the community. She has ...
CAROLYN JENNINGS It's more of an Italian Renaissance feel, but we've added some American feel to it. Even though with...
CAROLYN JENNINGS During the event we're going to have somebody up there playing the violin.
CAROLYN JENNINGS We talked a couple of times about what we should do.
CAROLYN JACKSON It was a difficult campaign, with several major disasters happening all over the world, but, at the ...
CAROLYN JACKSON We just have to come out and play. This is the time of the year that teams have to step up.
CAROLYN JACKSON We didn't play our best ball tonight. But at this point in the season we will take the win. We got o...
CAROLYN JACKSON People will say you lost everything, well no we didn't lose everything because we're here. We're ali...
CAROLYN JACKSON Our agencies depend on our raising the funds necessary to provide services to those in need in our c...
CAROLYN JACKSON What a special girl she was. She was quiet, but she was powerful in own right.
CAROLYN JACKSON We'll be looking at charters of similar-sized cities, what their differences are and whether those d...
CAROLYN JACKSON We could see what they were in and very hard to deal with. But he's home. Thank God.
CAROLYN JACKSON Here and there you'd see a tree that was budding or grass trying to grow. There was hope.
CAROLYN HUNTER Getting Michele back has definitely been a plus.
CAROLYN HUNTER We didn't start off well; we just didn't have much energy initially. The second half we did a better...
CAROLYN HUNTER Well, we feel that it's not a good idea because of all the traffic that's out here. The road out her...
CAROLYN HUNTER We're hoping to put together a stretch of three or four games here that can help us. That's so big -...
CAROLYN HUNTER It was a great win for us; we really needed this one. We had much better defensive intensity today; ...
CAROLYN HUNTER

You don't want to burden some poor wretch with the entire story of your life.

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