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Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

May Sarton

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May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
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May Eleanor Sarton
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Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
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A body without bones would be a limp impossible mess, so a day without steady routine would be disruptive and chaotic.
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Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.
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Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.
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Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
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True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
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If I were to choose one single thing that that would restore Paris to the senses, it would be that strangely sweet, unhealthy smell of the Métro, so very unlike the dank cold or the stuffy heat of subways in New York.
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I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.
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... love is healing, even rootless love.
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Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must feel this) precludes awareness of one's self, so after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.
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There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.
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She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome.
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Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.
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People who cannot feel punish those who do.
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What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.
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The fact is that I have lived with the belief that power, any kind of power, was the one thing forbidden to poets. ... Power requires that the inner person never be unmasked. No, we poets have to go naked. And since this is so, it is better that we stay private people a naked public person would be rather ridiculous, what?
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There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
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For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.
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