Listening is not merely not talking though even that is beyond most of our powers it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told us.

Alice Duer Miller
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  2. You always admire what you really don't understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt

  3. What you can't get is just what suits you. - French Proverb

  4. The dream is real my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality. - Toni Cade Bambara

  5. The true exercise of freedom is-can-nily and wisely and with grace-to move inside what space confines-and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted. - A. S. Byatt

More Quotes By Alice Duer Miller
  1. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give values to survival.

  2. It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is...

  3. We are not really senseless, and we are not angels, too, But very human beings, human just as much as you. It's hard upon occasions to be forceful and sublime When you're treated as incompetents three-quarters of the time.

  4. Mother, what is a Feminist?""A feminist, my daughter, Is any woman now who cares To think about her own affairs As men don't think she oughter.

  5. When men in Congress come to blows at somemthing someone said, I always notice that it shows their blood is quick and red; But if two women disagree, with very little noise, It proves, and this seems strange to me, that women have no poise.

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