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“I think I read Susan Brownmiller's classic book called "Femininity" when I was about 16. So yeah, it's been part of my mindset since a very early age. To me, what's crucial is to tell women's stories but also to tell them in a way that is fearless.”

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Author:Emma Donoghue

“The instant you say All Quiet On The Western Front people remember that great 20th century classic book on war, a book about a school boy turned into a soldier overnight.”

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Author:Ann Widdecombe

“I heard a story the other night about an editor who visited the Iowa Workshop and, when asked what sorts of books she published, replied, "Classic books." One of the students asked her, "You mean like Kafka?" Apparently she said, "Oh, I don't think I would publish Kafka."”

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Author:Matthew Specktor

“I was about 21 when I read that [Mere Christianity], and my faith was really being shaken during those days. Its a great, classic book.”

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Author:Max Lucado

“I've heard people ask, What's so sacred about a classic books that you can't change it for the modern child? Nothing is sacred about a classic. What makes a classic is the life that has accrued to it from generation after generation of children. Children give life to these books. Some books which you could hardly bear to read are, for children, classic.”

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Author:Frances Clarke Sayers

“John Bunyan, author of the classic book the Pilgrim’s Progress, said “You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who cannot pay you back.” Make a decision that you will live to give. Be on the lookout each day for somebody you can bless. Don’t’ live for yourself; learn to give yourself away, and your life will make a difference.”

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Author:Joel Osteen

“Some days are like that. Even in Australia.”

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Author:Judith Viorst

“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”

Source: The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”

“I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.”

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Author:Judith Viorst

“To boldly go where no one has gone before”

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Book:George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt

Source: George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt

“Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.”

“All Quiet on the Western Front.”