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“The fundamental skill of all mothers—the management of time—was beyond her. She measured time in pages.”
― Swing Time
― Swing Time
“Maybe luxury is the easiest matrix to pass through. Maybe nothing is easier to get used to than money.”
― Swing Time
― Swing Time
“A peculiar idea. Once you’re alive in this world, you’re responsible.”
― Swing Time
― Swing Time
“The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations which we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us, and which knows only the oppressors' tactics, the oppressors' relationships.”
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“I don’t mean that my mother didn’t love me but she was not a domestic person: her life was in her mind. The fundamental skill of all mothers—the management”
― Swing Time
― Swing Time
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