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I felt myself trapped in line for a ride I was not nearly ready for, looking back but moving forward in the only direction I could go.
Elizabeth Berg
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Elizabeth Berg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: December 2
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I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them, a lot.
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One thing I have always been is too short. It's adorable when you're in junior high. After that, it's a pain in the ass for the rest of your life.
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It will happen when you're not looking for it. Love likes to take you by surprise.
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The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting you to do just that.
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Remember me in your dreams, as I will you.
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You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.
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The truth is, we usually only show our unhappiness to another woman. I suppose this is one of our problems. And yet it is also one of our strengths.
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As a writer, you should have a sticky soul the act of continually taking things in should be as much a part of you as your hair color.
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We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.
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My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place.
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I hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs.
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Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you
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It feels like some part of me that was curled down and waiting in the dark has risen, and now stands stretching and strong in the sunshine. I knew it.
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I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay. I've heard that when elephants are attacked they often run, not away, but toward each other. Perhaps it is because they are a matriarchal society.
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I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay.
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There is incredible value in being of service to others.
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