Ruth O'dell

“A human being lives out not only his personal life as an individual,” remarked Thomas Mann in The Magic Mountain, “but also, consciously or subconsciously, the lives of his epoch and his contemporaries.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

“This is not merely the literary technique of overhearing”
― Richard Lischer, Our Hearts Are Restless: The Art of Spiritual Memoir

“Faithful Are the Wounds,”
― May Sarton, At Eighty-Two: A Journal

“What does it mean, say the words, that the earth is so beautiful? And what shall I do about it? What is the gift that I should bring to the world? What is the life that I should live?”
― Mary Oliver, Long Life: Essays and Other Writings