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Small Souls
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She was not interested in the larger questions, did not understand feminism, was a little afraid of socialism, especially because the poor were so dirty and smelt so horribly. Still, she was charitable, though she was not at all well-off,
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“the you you are with others is not you. To be lonesome is to be who you most fully are.”
― Varina
― Varina
“Jane Austen never married,” he said in frustration. “She entered the male-dominated field of novel writing and her female heroines are strong, independent characters. Just what do you imagine a feminist in a rural English village in the late eighteenth century looks like?”
― The Lost Book of the Grail
― The Lost Book of the Grail
“Humans are inhuman, whether it’s by direct action or by acceptance of a horrible action as normal.”
― Varina
― Varina
“A peace lover is someone who enjoys the absence of conflict, but a peacemaker is someone who is proactively engaged in works of reconciliation in every sphere of life, from the personal to the global. That”
― Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale
― Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale
“Civilization balances always on a keen and precarious point, a showman spinning a fine Spode dinner plate on a long dowel slender as a stem of hay. A puff of breath, a moment’s lost attention, and it’s all gone, crashed to ruination, shards in the dirt. Then mankind retreats to the caves, leaving little behind but obelisks weathering to nubs like broken teeth, dissolving to beach sand.”
― Varina
― Varina
The Emma M. Lion Appreciation Society
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