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From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life. Alice Morse Earle

Life Struggle Eyes Baby Puritan Had He Bleak Opened New Hour New England His England

It is plainly evident that, in a country where land was to be had for the asking, fuel for the cutting, corn for the planting and harvesting, and game and fish for the least expenditure of labor, no man would long serve for another, and any system of reliable service indoors or afield must fail. Alice Morse Earle

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'The New Yorker' was really my first experience with serious editing. Previously, I'd more or less just had copyediting with a few suggestions - not much. Alice Munro

Experience Editing First Few More More Or Less Had New Yorker Just New Yorker Much Really Less Serious Suggestions

I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don't think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level. Alice Munro

Life People Living Think Could Higher Generally Had Town Been Cultural Surroundings Brave Any Interesting Level Competing

Mothers and daughters generally have fairly complex relationships, and ours was made much more so by Mother's illness. She had Parkinson's disease, which was not diagnosed for a long time... All that made me very self-protective, because for one thing, I didn't want to get trapped. Alice Munro

Time Me Mother Made Long Long Time Trapped Relationships Complex Ours One Thing More Daughters Parkinson Generally Had She Fairly Because Diagnosed Mothers Very Get Disease Want Which Much Illness Thing

At eight, I made a commitment to poetry. Until then, I thought I'd be a policeman. But I went a whole night without sleeping, and the next day the world had changed. It needed a different language. Alice Oswald

I don't honestly have the time or energy to support anybody else's cause but my own, which is self-expression. So I guess, if I had a cause, it would be education. Alice Ripley

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When everything kind of hit the fan, my dad married Jo Anne, and suddenly there were five kids from the Ripleys and five kids from the Doughertys. Then my dad and Joanne had a baby. I usually have to make a diagram. Alice Ripley

Baby Everything Kids Kind Married Had Anne Make Diagram Were Five Hit Fan Then Dad Suddenly

The road's a tough life, but I said 'yes,' because as a kid growing up in Ohio, I never had a chance to see a Tony-winning actress in a role she won the Tony for. Alice Ripley

I had to go off by myself to try and discover what my talent really was. Alice Ripley

Myself Try Had Talent Go Discover Off Really

I always had that sense of being censored for the things that I thought. Why is it wrong to embroider your pants, or paint with acrylics on your clothing? Why is that weird? Isn't it weirder to want to be like everyone else? Alice Sebold

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power. Alice Walker

Religion People Money Power Living Think Earth Ways Indigenous Had Well Been Overrun Lot Forever Which Organized Organized Religion

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything. Alice Walker

People Problem Submission Everything Had Intellect Lovers Really Choice

I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something - no, maybe junior - and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book. Alice Walker

When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they'd always known - the plantations - because they attempted to exercise their 'democratic' right to vote. Alice Walker

Freedom Vote Parents Aid Joined Thrown Attempted Had Come Like Mississippi Democratic Known Because Exercise Always Been Off Movement Land Who Right Early Early 20s

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn't in her. Alice Walker

I once had an Early Girl tomato at my friend Jay's house, and I thought that was the best thing I'd ever had. But then I visited friends in Senegal, and I ate sea urchin pulled fresh out of the sea. It tasted like the ocean. Alice Waters

Best Thought Girl Ocean Once Visited Out Ate My Friend Had Like House Fresh Friend Friends Tasted Then Jay Sea Tomato Ever Thing Early Pulled

Both Alton Sterling and Philando Castile had guns on them, which is part of their Second Amendment right. It is a part of a culture that is largely protected by special-interest groups like the N.R.A., but the right to bear arms, it seems, only exists for white people. Alicia Garza

Culture People White Guns Seems Only Bear Both Had Part Like Sterling Protected Arms Exists Amendment Which Them Groups Largely Right Second Second Amendment

I was tired and I had overworked myself and burnt myself out. So I went to Egypt by myself. When I saw what was built there, it made me understand how powerful we are, that we can create anything. And I felt like I needed to create things that were timeless too. Alicia Keys

When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed. Alicia Keys

You Mother Nothing Else Piano Had Know Were Needed

I just wanted to be who I was, which was like so many other girls I knew. We grew up in the city, had a hard edge and obstacles to overcome, but we were still young and beautiful. I didn't want to be all dressed up, all made up - I wanted to be myself, which hadn't been done before. Alicia Keys

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I was terrified of vault, like literally I hated it. I had a fear of running as fast as I could at a solid object, which is I think a normal fear to have because nobody would really want to do that. Once I got over the fear of running into the table I just kind of relaxed and now it's like autopilot. I love it. Alicia Sacramone

Love Fear Think Once Relaxed Solid Kind Would Running Hated Table Object Could Vault Had Nobody Over Like Terrified Because Got Normal Just Want Literally Just Kind Which Really Now Fast

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