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Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

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Willa Cather
Age: 73 †
Born: 1873
Born: December 7
Died: 1947
Died: April 24
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Willa Sibert Cather
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The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
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Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.
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On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.
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The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.
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We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while.
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There was only - spring itself, the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere in the sky, in the swift clouds, in the pale sunshine, and in the warm high wind - rising suddenly, sinking suddenly, impulsive ... If I had been tossed down blindfold on that red prairie, I should have known that it was spring.
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Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.
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The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.
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All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.
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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
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One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.
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Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake you for one of themselves.
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I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.
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One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.
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I've seen it before. There are women who spread ruin through no fault of theirs, just by being too beautiful, too ful of life and love. They can't help it. Poeple come to them as people go to a warm fire in winter.
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It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.
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