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I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay.

Elizabeth Berg

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Elizabeth Berg
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: December 2
Author
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Nurse
St Paul
Minnesota
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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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There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.
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I turn off the radio, listen to the quiet. Which has its own, rich sound. Which I knew, but had forgotten. And it is good to remember.
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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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For all it's problems and difficulties, life is mostly a wonderful experience, and it is up to each person to make the most of each day. I hope you are successful in your life, but look to the heavens and the earth and especially to other people to find your real wealth. Wherever I am, wherever you go, know that my love goes with you.
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Don't let your habits become handcuffs
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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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This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first.
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It's amazing how smart the body is. Though maybe we could do without loving. I think it's overrated, and I think it's too hard. You should only love your children that is necessary, because otherwise you might kill them. But to love a man? It's overrated, and it's too hard and I will never, ever do it again.
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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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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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There is incredible value in being of service to others.
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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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No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t.
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Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you
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Oh just wait. It takes a lot of time, that's all...You'll have come to a certain kind of appreciation that moves beyond all the definitions of love you've ever had. A certain richness happens only later in life. I guess its' a kind of mellowing. p 80 talking about marriage and husbands
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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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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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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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I will come back as a little breeze. You will feel me on your face, and you will know that I am still listening. So you can still talk to me.
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