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Kathleen Barry. Susan B. Anthony: A Biography of a Singular Feminist. First Books: Bloomington, IN, 2000

wretched existence Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Patience, they say, is what I must now choose for my guide, and I have done so—Perhaps I shall get better, perhaps not; I am ready.—Forced to become a philosopher already in my twenty-eighth year.—Divine One, thou seest my inmost soul; thou knowest that therein dwells the love of mankind and the desire to do good Ã¢â'¬Â¦

American philosopher and psychologist Alan Watts imagined this web as a multidimensional spiderweb. He said, "Imagine this web in the early morning, covered with dewdrops. And every dewdrop contains the reflection of all the other dewdrops. And, in each reflected dewdrop, the reflections of all the other dewdrops in that reflection. And so on ad infinitum.

The great twentieth-century monk Thomas Merton encountered precisely the same spiritual exhaustion partway through his life. The chief source of this exhaustion, he writes, "is the selfish anxiety to get the most out of everything, to be a sparkling

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Right Is Ours. Oxford University Press: USA, 2001

She was a woman who had retained the simplicity of earlier life even as she had surpassed its limitations.

Until women are made a balance of power—to be consulted, catered to, and bargained with, if you please—My one article of party creed—shall be that of woman suffrage—All other articles of party creeds shall be with me as a drop in the bucket—as compared with this vital one—hence I make it my whole party

Marion's view allowed her experience with cancer to be full of meaning, to be replete with possibility, and it enabled Death to bring her more deeply into Life. She got the initiation.

In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer," wrote Albert Camus

Lynn Sherr. Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words. Times Books: Toronto, 1995