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“Christmas is a season of such infinite labour, as well as expense in the shopping and present-making line, that almost every woman I know is good for nothing in purse and person for a month afterwards, done up physically, and broken down financially.”

Knows Wells Persons Done Lines Broken Months Seasons Infinite Christmas Labour Expenses Shopping Purses Broken Down

Book:Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters, Forming a Sequel to Record of a Girlhood, and Records of Later Life

Source: Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters, Forming a Sequel to Record of a Girlhood, and Records of Later Life

“I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet, I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She's sort of become my fairy godmother.”

“The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often make it possible for writing to be first; habits of years - responses to others, distractibility, responsibility for daily matters - stay with you, mark you, become you. The cost of discontinuity (that pattern still imposed on women) is such a weight of things unsaid, an accumulation of material so great, that everything starts up something else in me; what should take weeks take me sometimes months to write; what should take months, takes years.”

Source: Silences

“I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.”

Said Shows Principles Break Broken Months Habit Slave Critics Smoking Now And Then Showing Off

Book:Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography

Source: Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography

“The revolting details of childbirth had been hidden from me with such care that I was as surprised as I was horrified, and I cannot help thinking that the vows most women are made to take are very foolhardy. I doubt whether they would willingly go to the altar to swear that they will allow themselves to be broken on the wheel every nine months.”

Thinking Made Helping Care Doubt Broken Months Details Nine Wheels Swear Vow Altars Childbirth Nine Months Foolhardy

Author:Suzanne Curchod

“January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken.”

Years Self Study Broken Months Economics Resolution New Year Self Control January February New Years Resolution Behavioral Economics

Author:Sendhil Mullainathan

“I never wanted to spend a month away from my life. One time I was out on the road for three weeks in a row and I when I came back someone had broken into my apartment and the water had evaporated from the toilet.”

Wanted Three Water Week Broken Months One Time Apartment Toilets

Author:Bill Burr

“April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too much, the world burgeons with promises it can't keep, all passion is really a setup, and we're doomed to get our hearts broken yet again. I agree, and would further add: Who cares? Every spring I go out there anyway, around the bend, unconditionally. ... Come the end of the dark days, I am more than joyful. I'm nuts.”

Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

“It was the month of May and there was warm sunshine dripping through the holes between the clouds, like the sky was a broken blue bowl and a child was trying to keep honey in it.”

Trying May Children Sky Broken Months Blue Clouds Warm Holes Sunshine Honey Bowls Dripping

Book:Little Bee: A Novel

Source: Little Bee: A Novel