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We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set with bulbs, and have Delft or other earthen pots or boxes for formal plants or shrubs.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: America Being Boxes Chief Claim Dutch Formal Gardens Other Plants Pots Pretty Set Very

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I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as 'the little wife.' You don't know what it was like then! I'd never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Ask Being Cheque Even Found Groceries Had Hard Hated Husband Know Like Little Married Money Never Regarded Then Twenties Wife Written You Young

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When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I've got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Being Cannot Compassion Conquer Disabled Feel Got How Imagine Life Mother Now Older See Somehow Would You Young I Feel I Can

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I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without the whole sentence falling to pieces.

~Alice Oswald

Topics: Being Could Falling Greek Language Latin Loved Much Pattern Pieces Preferred Sentence Shift Whole Without Word You

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I think it is the easiest mentality for a human being to be either colonized or to colonize. The structure of either the slave or the master seems to be the simplest and the most relaxing one to slip into. Either you are a slave, and you don't have to think for yourself, or you're a master, and you don't have to work for yourself.

~Alice Oswald

Topics: Being Easiest Either Human Human Being Master Mentality Most Relaxing Seems Simplest Slave Slip Structure Think Work You Yourself I Think

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It's hard being a Barbie doll all the time.

~Alice Ripley

Topics: Barbie Being Doll Hard Time

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Part of the frustration of being bipolar is people don't understand what it feels like.

~Alice Ripley

Topics: Being Bipolar Feels Frustration Like Part People Understand

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When I did 'Rocky Horror,' I didn't want to meet the audience afterward, because they'd been having a good time yelling names at me all night, and I didn't really want to tell them that I didn't have such a good time being yelled at all night.

~Alice Ripley

Topics: Afterwards All Night Audience Because Been Being Did Good Good Time Having Having A Good Time Horror Me Meet Names Night Really Rocky Tell Them Time Want Yelled Yelling

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Now, I come from a long line of narcissists. And I also have no kids - by choice - but I understand not being a mother and the pain that comes from that.

~Alice Ripley

Topics: Also Being Choice Come Kids Line Long Long Line Mother Now Pain Understand

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What made me so brave? Maybe it was being the middle kid of 11, and we all had to share one bathroom. New underwear? I never discovered that until I got into college.

~Alice Ripley

Topics: Bathroom Being Brave College Discovered Got Had Kid Made Maybe Me Middle Never New Share Underwear Until

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