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    Susan Faludi
    “The anti-feminism bacllash has been set off not by women's achievement of full equality but by the increased possibility that they might win it. It is a pre-emptive strike that stops women long before they reach the finishing line.”
    ― Susan Faludi, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
    tags: backlash, feminism, rights, women
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    Yoko Ono
    “Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.
    Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.
    Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.
    Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”
    ― Yoko Ono
    tags: aging, autumn, fall, life, seasons, spring, summer, time, winter
    1254 likes

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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"...
    "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
    tags: beauty, children, classic, nature, spring
    1411 likes

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    Margaret Atwood
    “In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg
    tags: nature, spring
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    Cathy Linh Che
    “Persephone had it right.
    If you must go, might as well
    take all of spring with you—”
    ― Cathy Linh Che, Split
    tags: persephone, poem, poetry, spring
    16 likes

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    Matsuo Bashō
    “Moonlit plum tree-
    wait,
    spring will come.”
    ― Matsuo Bashō, Lips Too Chilled
    tags: moonlit, plum-tree, spring
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Mary
    tags: craving, desire, life, nostalgia, seasons, spring, wanderlust
    547 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Don’t you know what that is? It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want—oh, you don’t quite know what it is you DO want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!”
    ― Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, Detective
    tags: restlessness, spring
    220 likes

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  • #9
    “I glanced out the window at the signs of spring. The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright.”
    ― Millard Kaufman, Bowl of Cherries
    tags: page-142, spring
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel strong, even if you aren't.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
    tags: spring, sun, syracuse, weather, winter
    55 likes

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    Keshni Kashyap
    “But enough of the drama.
    Winter has turned to spring.
    And I am feeling good.”
    ― Keshni Kashyap, Tina's Mouth: An Existential Comic Diary
    tags: feeling-good, spring
    3 likes

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  • #12
    “Spring is a powerful spell.
    The blue. The clouds high up and puffy. The air warmer than it's been for weeks.”
    ― Jenny Downham, Before I Die
    tags: spring, springtime
    9 likes



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