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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.

Elizabeth Berg

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Elizabeth Berg
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: December 2
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Nurse
St Paul
Minnesota
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I thought of the priest who'd told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people we love after death than before.
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Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.
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Remember me in your dreams, as I will you.
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You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are...off on your own, I still always know where you are, because I keep you in my heart.
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My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place.
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Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time.
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Do you think that people ever really do believe they will die, that the world will just go along as always without them? I wonder if we aren't all a little surprised at the moment of crossover, if we don't look back over our shoulders saying, Now hold on.
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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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No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t.
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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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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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It will happen when you're not looking for it. Love likes to take you by surprise.
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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 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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As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.
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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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