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“The hazard of living in a place where you had so much history--so much pain and so much rage and so much love--was that every item could turn on you in a flash.”
― The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line
― The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line
“But there was, she knew, something else. Happiness, she supposed. Whatever that might be. What, exactly, she wondered, was happiness. Very positively she wanted it.”
― Quicksand
― Quicksand
“Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in which male domination of women and children stands in the ways of love.”
― All About Love: New Visions
― All About Love: New Visions
“As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of winestains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running.”
― My Ántonia
― My Ántonia
“I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world. ”
― The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories
― The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories
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