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Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Courage Dreams Fulfill Summon Up Women

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Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Beings Break Confused Cruelty Dictatorship Enslavement Free Greed Human Human Beings Humanity Ignorant Like Longer May Our Over Spreads Superior Unable Well Will World

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I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Contemplative Ideal Life Live Very

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I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I'd get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Back Because Bed Daughter Evening Get Go Good Had Her Juggle Many Meditate Mother Off Period Raising Same School Single Single Mother Then Things Time Up Used Very Would

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Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Any Around Be Happy Get Got Happiness Happy Make Other People Wait You Yourself

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In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.

~Alice Walker

Topics: About Again Alone Baby Become Believe Happiness Height Intelligence Joy Just Korea Leave Life People Rest Should South South Korea Think Totally Turn You Your

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Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Anybody Holy Making Observe Rest Sabbath Surely Takes Week

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You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Always Doing Just Just Be Plenty Something You

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Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

~Alice Walker

Topics: About Active Clearly Elder Family Family Life Led Life Much Older Older Women Own Patience Sharing Successfully Teach Through Us Who Wisdom Women

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We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Begin Creatures Equal Existence Makes Must Other Seeing Us

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 9th, 1944

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