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Love's language is imprecise, fits more like mittens than gloves.Jeannine Atkins
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Names and knowledge change, the way the turningworld brings color or deep shadows, without a soundeven as soft as the twist of a key in a lock.Jeannine Atkins
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As Maria Mitchell pointed out in 1875, 'Science needs women'.Jeannine Atkins
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There's more in the earth than anyone knows. We'll find wonders.Jeannine Atkins
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No one wants to stumble into gates on moonless nights to trip in holes dug by dogs, but Maria finds more beauty than danger in night.Jeannine Atkins
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Stars crown the world, she said, but the lights in your eyes, those are stars, too. They make up your crown, he said.Jeannine Atkins
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One can slide between poor and rich, the difference as slight as between paper and parchment, one voice and a choir, arms hanging by sides and a hug.Jeannine Atkins