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“I will write myself into well-being.”

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Nancy Mairs was an American author known for her candid writing about chronic pain and physical disability. Her works delve into personal identity, body image, and societal stereotypes about people with disabilities. more

“Yes, there is no doubt that paper is patient and as I don't intend to show this cardboard-covered notebook, bearing the proud name of "diary," to anyone, unless I find a real friend, boy or girl, probably nobody cares. And now I come to the root of the matter, the reason for my starting a diary: it is that I have no such real friend.”

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Book:The diary of a young girl

Source: The diary of a young girl

“A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.”

Needs Giving Should Book Walks Movement Particular Conversation Accounts Aim Episodes Journal Diaries Dreary Chronicles

Author:A. C. Benson

“The opening line from a journal can be the beginning of a song.”

Song Lines Opening Journal Diaries

Author:Judy Collins

“The diary taught me that it is in the moments of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately. I learned to choose the heightened moments because they are the moments of revelation.”

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Author:Anais Nin

“I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.”

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Author:May Sarton

“The word "journal" has in its root the word jour, French for day. A journey was the distance that could be traveled in a day. A journal, therefore, consisted of the writing one recorded per day.”

Writing Journey Roots Distance Traveled Journal Diaries

Author:Sheila Bender

“My diary seems to keep me whole.”

Whole Seems Journal Diaries

Author:Anais Nin

“Respecting differences is very difficult.”

Difficult Differences

Author:Rod Steiger

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