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“But it's also the beginning of another level of liberation for her]Eleanor Roosevelt], because when she returns to New York, she gets very involved in a new level of politics. She meets Esther Lape and Elizabeth Read, and becomes very involved in the women's movement, and then in the peace movement. And ironically, the years of her greatest despair become also the years of her great liberation.”

Years Levels New York Movement Return Involved Despair Liberation Eleanor Esther

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

“The moment in The Bell Jar when Esther Greenwood realizes after thirty days in the same black turtleneck that she never wants to wash her hair again, that the repeated necessity of the act is too much trouble, that she wants to do it once and be done with it, seems like the book's true epiphany. You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended into philosophical heights.”

“Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt. The more Esther loved her parents, the more helpless she felt, as they aged, to protect them from harm. A moral coward, she kept her distance.”

Felt Parent Moral Duty Protect Distance Guilt Painful Harm Former Coward Helpless Oxygen Hometown Pilgrimage Esther

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“Esther, however, was the only woman who understood one very simple thing: in order to be able to find her, I first had to find myself.”

Firsts Able Order Simple Understood Simple Things Esther

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road. Switchback after switchback. And the point of biblical stories like Joseph and Job and Esther and Ruth is to help us feel in our bones (not just know in our heads) that God is for us in all these strange turns. God is not just showing up after the trouble and cleaning it up. He is plotting the course and managing the troubles with far-reaching purposes for our good and for the glory of Jesus Christ.”

“Writers. For some reason, a lot of you reject what you hear and see in your heads. If you go too long ignoring it, it builds up and then you do all sorts of weird things. Mumble to yourself. Nightmares. Day-dreams. Total anarchy and chaos. Before you know it, the writer is either sitting in corner feverishly humming to his- or herself or on Prozac. You’re not on Prozac, are you? (Esther)”

Ifs Knows Long Reason Dream Sitting Chaos Corners Nightmare Rejects Anarchy Weird Things Humming Prozac Esther

Book:In Other Worlds

Source: In Other Worlds

“You own a Tic Tac. Gum is just borrowed. - Esther”

Borrowed Gum Esther Tics Tic Tacs

Book:Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

“Leaning her silly, beautiful, drunken head on my shoulder, she said, "Oh, Esther, I don't want to be a feminist. I don't enjoy it. It's no fun." "I know," I said. "I don't either." People think you decide to be a "radical," for God's sake, like deciding to be a librarian or a ship's chandler. You "make up your mind," you "commit yourself" (sounds like a mental hospital, doesn't it?). I said Don't worry, we could be buried together and have engraved on our tombstone the awful truth, which some day somebody will understand: WE WUZ PUSHED.”

“Are you really going to catch us and take us back to Esther? We don’t belong to her, you know.” Embarrassed, Victor stared at his shoes. “Well, children all have to belong to somebody,” he muttered. “Do you belong to someone?” “That’s different.” “Because you’re a grown-up?”

Knows Wells Children Different Shoes Embarrassed Esther

Author:Cornelia Funke

“I'd rather have a daughter in a whorehouse than a son in the police force,' Esther used to rage to anyone who would listen.”

Used Force Son Daughter Police Rage Police Force Esther

Book:Role Models

Source: Role Models

“Jerusalem Maiden is a page-turning and thought-provoking novel. Extraordinary sensory detail vividly conjures another time and place; heroine Esther Kaminsky’s poignant struggle transcends time and place. The ultimate revelation here: for many women, if not most, 2011 is no different than 1911, but triumph is nonetheless possible.”

“Esther Williams? Wet, she's a star. Dry, she ain't.”

Stars Dry Wet Esther

Author:Fanny Brice

“The opportunities for using our financial resources to spread the gospel and strengthen the church all over the world are greater than they've ever been. As God raised up Esther for just such a time as hers, I'm convinced he's raise us up, with all our wealth, to help fulfill the great commission. The question is, what are we doing with that money? Our job is to make sure it gets to his intended recipients.”

World Helping Jobs Opportunity Church Wealth Greater Resources Raises Raised Financial Spread Convinced Esther Great Commission Financial Resources

Book:Money, Possessions, and Eternity

Source: Money, Possessions, and Eternity

“Esther came to a proud imperious man; we come to the God of love and grace.”

Men Grace Proud Esther

Book:The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition

Source: The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition