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You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open.
Elizabeth Berg
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Elizabeth Berg
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: December 2
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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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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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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.
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Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.
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I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.
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Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time.
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But it seemed to me that this was the way we all lived: full to the brim with gratitude and joy one day, wrecked on the rocks the next. Finding the balance between the two was the art and the salvation.
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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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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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Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you
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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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