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from the essay A Sweet Devouring: "When I used to ask my mother which we were, rich or poor, she refused to tell me. I was then nine years old and of course what I was dying to hear was that we were poor. I was reading a book called Five Little Peppers and my heart was set on baking a cake ... in a stove with a hole in it."
I loved this piece: it was so much my own experience at the same age.
— Oct 07, 2016 12:00PM
I loved this piece: it was so much my own experience at the same age.
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(One tragic thing about the poor in Mississippi is how little money it did take here to gain the things that mattered.)
— Oct 11, 2016 12:17PM
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I was a scarecat, all right, but I was a reader with my own refuge in storybooks. Making my way under the sidewalk, under the street and the streetcar track, under the Little Store, down there in the wet dark by myself, I could be Persephone entering into my six-month sojourn underground--though I didn't suppose Persephone had to crawl, hanging onto a loaf of bread, and come out through the teeth of an iron grating.
— Oct 10, 2016 04:38PM
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Thank you, Eudora Welty, for your essays on writing. I am grateful.
— May 24, 2015 08:41PM
