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Ear to the Ground: Writings on Class and Caste

by K Balagopal

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Wild Unrest: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Making of "The Yellow Wall-Paper"

by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

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Near to the Wild Heart

by Clarice Lispector

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Varnika ’s Quotes

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
― E.B. White

tags: activism, humor, life, pleasure

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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

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“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein

tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t

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