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As far as I can reckon, a woman can stand absolutely anything under God's heaven that she knows; but she just up and can't stand the littlest, teeniest, no-account sort of thing that she ain't sure of. Answers may kill 'em dead enough, but it's questions that eats 'em alive.Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
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Why, I've been all over the world, I tell you, and fairly loafed and lolled in every conceivable sort of ease and luxury, but the Soul of me–the wild, restless, breathless, discontented soul of me–never sat down before in all its life– I say, until my frightened hand cuddled into his broken one. I tell you I don't pretend to explain it, I don't pretend to account for it; all I know is–that smothering there under all that horrible wreckage and everything–the instant my hand went home to his, the most absolute sense of serenity and contentment went over me.Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
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Provide for her Future–if you can! – That's my motto! – But a man's just a plain bum who don't provide for his own Past!Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
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I wish I could have lived just one day when the world was new. I wish– I wish I could have reaped just one single, solitary, big Emotion before the world had caught it and–appraised it–and taxed it–and licensed it–and staled it!Eleanor Hallowell Abbott