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I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do. Too many women I knew…

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Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value the work…
Sometimes the most ordinary things are the ones we learn to miss the most.
People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need…
What I would give, I thought, to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear…
Who said you had to fill his shoes? Wear your own shoes. They're bound to fit better. Walk your own path your…
Marvelously entertaining, Gabrielle Donnellys The Little Women Letters evokes the spirit of Louisa May Alcotts Little Women with warmth and affection. I…
Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie.
Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens is an enthralling concoction of history and magic, an absorbing, richly detailed, and heart-wrenching reimagining of a timeless…
In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set…
Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years as a…
When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women's friendship…
Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious,…

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The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried. — Mignon McLaughlin
Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it… — Bill Brandt
By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of… — Wilhelm Frick
Not long ago it was easy to tell who the bad guys were. They carried Kalashnikovs. Now it is much more complicated,… — Jeff Cooper
Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were… — James Russell Lowell
He was doing missionary work. But from the outset he had little success in convincing his charges of their responsibility for a… — William Gaddis
We felt that the police needed a label, a label other than that fear image that they carried in the community. So… — Huey Newton
I would love to do a period piece - in the 18th or 17th century. To me, it would be such an… — Amy Smart
I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do. Too many… — Jennifer Chiaverini
Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be… — Dave Eggers
He could tell at once that they carried different sorts of bubble bath mixed with the water though it wasn't bubble bath… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me… — Yann Martel

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