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“The nature of this flower is to bloom.”

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Alice Walker is a renowned American author born on February 9, 1944. Her works are known for their profound social criticism and feminist ideas, with notable titles including 'The Color Purple' and 'Beloved'. more

“Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.”

Source: CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR™S TALES (Holiday Classics Series): Including Anne Shirley Series

“not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take.”

Term Common Principles Subjects Mankind Argument Independent Common Sense Command Firm Justify Compelled

Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretary of state

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretary of state

“Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.”

People Kind Real Care Dies Born Liberty Democracy Depends Guts Free Society Democracies Have Golden Notebook

Book:The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

“I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.”

Common Feminist Common Sense Ideology Hated 1960s

Author:Doris Lessing

“How can I make him understand that he did not create me? He makes the same mistake as the others when they look at a feeble-minded person and laugh because they don't understand there are human feelings involved.”

Humans Looks Persons Feelings Mistake Laughing Involved Same Mistakes

Book:Flowers for Algernon

Source: Flowers for Algernon

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