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“Great food needed more than chefs; it needed gourmet diners.”

Book:The Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels

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The Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels

This compilation showcases a diverse range of contemporary women's fiction, including works that explore themes such as personal growth, social issues, and complex relationships. The selected novels are celebrated for their storytelling, character development, and insight into the modern woman's experience. more

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Nicole Mones

Nicole Mones, born in 1952, is an accomplished novelist. Her works are known for their unique perspective and profound insight into the exchanges and collisions between Chinese and American cultures. Her representative works include 'The Bridge of Beijing'. more

“Amy Poehler did a really cute thing, [] [her son] said his prayers before he went to sleep that she was going to win [a Golden Globe] and when she got home she put [the trophy] in his bedroom. So when he woke up, he was like “Yes I did it, I did it”. He was so excited, he felt like he had somehow engendered the trophy into existence, which is so cute.”

Said Home Winning Felt Prayer Sleep Existence Son Excited Golden Cute Globes Bedroom Trophies Amy Really Cute Cute Things

Author:Michael Schur

“People don't seem to make the connection between their tax money and the benefits that they get from their tax money, like free education, and the fire department, and police protection, and everything else. It drives me bonkers, because it's pretty straightforward to me.”

People Seems Fire Taxes Benefits Connections Police Protection Department Straightforward Free Education Fire Department Police Protection

Author:Michael Schur

“The verb 'to darn' is explained in my pocket dictionary as follows: 'To mend by imitating the texture of the stuff, with thread and needle.' But this definition does not correspond to the work accomplished by good Chinese housewives. When they mend a sock, they do not try 'to imitate the texture of the stuff'. Their art makes no attempt at concealment: it even takes a certain pride in revealing itself.”

Trying Doe Art Certain Stuff Pride Definitions Chinese Accomplished Pockets Thread Revealing Dictionary Texture Needles Sock Verbs Housewife Imitating Concealment

Author:Daniele Vare

“Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset?”

Should Black Flower Horse Western Colour Sunset Why Not Funeral Fading

Book:Novels of Yen-Ching

Source: Novels of Yen-Ching

“Ah, what a sweetner of toil is love—love to a dear earthly parent, and still more love to Christ. There is no drudgery in the most menial employment where that is the motive power.”

Stills Parent Christ Dear Employment Motive Toil Drudgery

Book:Elsie's Motherhood: A Sequel to

Source: Elsie's Motherhood: A Sequel to

“A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.”

Men Writing Reading Ready Men And Women

Author:Marcus Garvey

“Holy and pure are the drops that fall, When the young bride goes from her father's hall; She goes unto love yet untried and new- She parts from love which hath still been true.”

Stills Young Fall Father Holy Pure Halls Brides

Book:COMING OF AGE COLLECTION – Timeless Children Classics For Young Girls: Complete Elsie Dinsmore & Mildred Keith Series: Including the Novels Edith’s Sacrifice, Ella Clinton, Signing the Contract and What it Cost, The Thorn in the Nest & The Tragedy of Wild River Valley (With Original Illustrations)

Source: COMING OF AGE COLLECTION – Timeless Children Classics For Young Girls: Complete Elsie Dinsmore & Mildred Keith Series: Including the Novels Edith’s Sacrifice, Ella Clinton, Signing the Contract and What it Cost, The Thorn in the Nest & The Tragedy of Wild River Valley (With Original Illustrations)

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