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• Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other - beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival - a knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.

  Adrienne Rich

  Daughter, Mother, Survival

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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• In Koln, a town of monks and bones,
  And pavement fang'd with murderous stones,
  And rags and hags, and hideous wenches,
  I counted two-and-seventy stenches,
  All well defined, and several stinks!
  Ye nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks,
  The River Rhine, it is well known,
  Doth wash your city of Cologne;
  But tell me, nymphs! what power divine
  Shall henceforth whash the river Rhine.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Cities, Rivers, Nymphs

  1828 'Cologne', first published in Friendship's Offering (1834), as 'Lightheartedness in Rhyme', no.4.

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• I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Spring, Years, Giving

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• Two words will help you cope when you run low on hope: accept and trust.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Trust, Running, Hope

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “Wisdom for the Way: Wise Words for Busy People”, p.54, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Who's counting? It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would dearly like to use their fingers and toes for some activity more enthralling than counting. They have been counting for so long. But the peculiar problem of the new math is that every time we stop adding, somebody starts subtracting. At the very least (the advanced students will understand this) the rate of increase slows. ... The minority members of any group or profession have two answers: They can keep score or they can lose.

  Ellen Goodman

  Math, Long, Racism

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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• If there's a single message passed down from each generation of American parents to their children, it is a two-word line: Better Yourself. And if there's a temple of self-betterment in each town, it is the local school. We have worshipped there for some time.

  Ellen Goodman

  Education, Children, School

  Ellen Goodman (1983). “At Large”, Fawcett Books

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• If we mammals don't get something to eat every day or two, our temperature drops, all our signs fall off, and we begin to starve. Living at biological red alert, it's not surprising how obsessed we are with food; I'm just amazed we don't pace and fret about it all the time.

  Diane Ackerman

  Fall, Mammals, Pace

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales”, p.77, Vintage

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• In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature, Scotch for sermons, and American for conversation.

  Stephen Leacock

  Scotch, Canada, Use

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• The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Suicide, Years, Drug

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.32, Bantam

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• Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Christian, Years, Guilt

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• Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages - the language is dead. Language takes two and their multiples.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Alive, Language, American Indian

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.99, Bantam

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• I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Romantic Love, Looks, Too Much

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Venus Envy”, p.174, Bantam

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• [On why she doesn't exercise:] If I tried to jog with these boobs, I'd end up with two black eyes.

  Dolly Parton

  Fitness, Eye, Exercise

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• [On being overweight:] If I tried to haul ass, I would have to make two trips.

  Dolly Parton

  Weight, Ass, Haul

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• In How to Be an American Housewife Margaret Dilloway creates an irresistible heroine. Shoko is stubborn, contrary, proud, a wonderful housewife and full of deeply conflicted feelings. I wanted to shake her, even as I was cheering her on, and this cunningly structured novel allowed me to do both. It also took me on two intricate journeys, from post-war Japan and the shadow of Nagasaki to contemporary California, and from motherhood to daughterhood and back again. A profound and suspenseful debut.

  Margot Livesey

  Cheer, War, Motherhood

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• the New Englander landed on a stony, barren tract, and a large share of his strength during two centuries has gone to force a living out of it. Hence he has come to regard economy - a necessary unpleasant quality at best - as the chief of virtues. He has cultivated habits which verge on closeness in dealing with food, and with the expression of feeling, and even - his enemies think - with feeling itself.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Thinking, Expression, Feelings

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• Caring works. Caretaking doesn't. We can learn to walk the line between the two.

  Melody Beattie

  Caring, Lines, Caretaking

  Melody Beattie (1990). “The Language of Letting Go”, p.67, Hazelden Publishing

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• I am honored to have had two Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions made from my novels - Silver Bells and Follow the Stars Home.

  Luanne Rice

  Stars, Home, Silver Bells

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• I was raised by and have raised people who regard telling one story when two would do as a sign someone is not really trying.

  Linda Ellerbee

  People, Trying, Stories

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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• Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. If you can bend space you can bend time also, and if you knew enough and could move faster than light you could travel backwards in time and exist in two places at once.

  Margaret Atwood

  Time, Moving, Light

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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• Sex is good for about two years, and then you need love.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Sex, Years, Needs

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• Of all vices take heed of drunkenness; other vices are but fruits of disordered affections--this disorders, nay, banishes reason; other vices but impair the soul--this demolishes her two chief faculties, the understanding and the will; other vices make their own way--this makes way for all vices; he that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

  Francis Quarles

  Understanding, Soul, Vices

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• When two agree in their desire,
  One sparke will set them both on fire.

  Francis Quarles

  Fire, Desire, Agree

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• I think women see me on the cover of magazines and think I never have a pimple or bags under my eyes. You have to realize that's after two hours of hair and makeup, plus retouching. Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.

  Cindy Crawford

  Eye, Thinking, Makeup

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• Years ago when a man began to notice that if he stood up on the subway he was immediately replaced by two people, he figured he was getting too fat.

  Jean Kerr

  Men, Years, People

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