3 Quotes & Sayings By Claudia Putnam

Claudia Putnam was born in Montclair, New Jersey, and currently resides there with her husband, three sons and two dogs. She received her BA in English from Drexel University and received her MA in English from the University of Delaware. She teaches writing and literature classes at several Philadelphia-area colleges and is a member of several organizations that promote literacy. She is the author of the acclaimed novel, My Name Is Destiny.

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I have read that long ago there was a land of glass castles that sank beneath the sea. It was not called Atlantis, but Lyonesse. This happened before history and across the ocean, but when I was little I wondered about that place, how it could be so beautiful and so lost. Sometimes it seemed that the land around my New England home was like that flooded country, with mud where the streets of gold should be and mayflies swarming where there should be lovely fishes, but here and there a shard of crystal to call the heart to beauty. --"Wetlands, " in Phoebe. Claudia Putnam
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I beam back at her. Fuck the surgery, fuck the kids, fuck the men in our lives or no longer in our lives. This is sweet. When she catches up with me, I say, How many, just how many forty-plus women would do that? We gaze back up at the face bleeding into the chute we’ve just skied. We *did* that, I crow. Someone should love us just for that. --Hangfire Claudia Putnam