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Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Age: 94 †
Born: 1906
Born: June 22
Died: 2001
Died: February 7
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I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
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there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.
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The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.
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