Paula Whyman
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“The goal is not to end up with a pristine field of native plants. The trick is to keep the undesirable stuff from passing a tipping point and taking over,”
― Bad Naturalist: One Woman's Ecological Education on a Wild Virginia Mountaintop
― Bad Naturalist: One Woman's Ecological Education on a Wild Virginia Mountaintop
“The late John Gardner once said that there are only two plots in all of literature. You go on a journey or a stranger comes to town. Since women, for many years, were denied the journey, they were left with only one plot in their lives --
to await the stranger. Indeed, there is essentially no picaresque tradition among women novelists. While the latter part of the twentieth century has seen a change of tendency, women's literature from Austen to Woolf is by and large a literature about waiting, usually for love.”
― The Illustrated Virago Book of Women Travellers
to await the stranger. Indeed, there is essentially no picaresque tradition among women novelists. While the latter part of the twentieth century has seen a change of tendency, women's literature from Austen to Woolf is by and large a literature about waiting, usually for love.”
― The Illustrated Virago Book of Women Travellers
“When I think about how I understand my role as citizen, setting aside being president…the most important stuff I've learned I think I've learned from novels. It has to do with empathy." President Obama, in conversation with Marilynne Robinson, in New York Review of Books”
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