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• Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is…
• Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the…
• Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It…
• Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.
• The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.
• Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.
• The knowingness of little girls, is hidden underneath their curls.
• Time is the thief you cannot banish.
• The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on…
• God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave…
• A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful…
• Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.

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