Anne Douglas Sedgwick quotes

“Have you ever noticed the softness of a kitten's feet? - they are like raspberries to hold in one's hand.”
-- Anne Douglas Sedgwick

Source : Anne Douglas Sedgwick (1924). “The Little French Girl”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company

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“Rebels are the people who refuse the seen for the unseen.”
-- Anne Douglas Sedgwick

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“You don't change people's hearts by making them suffer. You harm yourself as well as them.”
-- Anne Douglas Sedgwick

Source : Anne Douglas Sedgwick (1924). “The Little French Girl”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company

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“One doesn't love any of the things of Summer as much as one does the things of Spring.”
-- Anne Douglas Sedgwick

Source : Anne Douglas Sedgwick (1924). “The Little French Girl”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company

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“Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics

“The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.”

“Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Do not stop it. Is it not yet come? Do not stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a spouse, to public post, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy guest at the feast of life.”

“I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.”

“I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before Mad Men.”

“Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc

“TIME's Person of the Year for 2006, maintainer of a foot long beard”

“I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!”

“We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering of moss and heath and wood to be torn away from the sides of the mountains, and the green mantle that lies near their feet to be lifted up; we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth, and so judge of the part played by each of them during those old convulsive movements whereby her limbs were contorted and drawn up into their present posture.”

“Often, we melt into our ecstasies as though they were jams, as though we were sinking into syrupy bowls of gooseberries, of raspberries, of bilberries.”

Source : Violette Leduc (1966). “The Woman with the Little Fox: Three Novellas”