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> [I was really interested in 20th century communalism and alternative communities, the boom of communes in the 60s and 70s. That led me back to the 19th century. I was shocked to find what I would describe as far more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christine-jennings/i-was-really-interested-in-20th-century-communalism-and-alternative/)

[Christine Jennings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christine-jennings/)

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> [There are Harvard grads, free thinkers, feminists, abolitionists, well-to-do people who want to go write poetry and live on a farm and cook and laugh and have a good time. As they themselves described it, it was an "inward facing"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christine-jennings/there-are-harvard-grads-free-thinkers-feminists-abolitionists-well-to/)

[Christine Jennings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christine-jennings/)

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