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In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?
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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
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It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
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Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
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We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
By Jessamyn West
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
By Jessamyn West
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
By Jessamyn West
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
By Jessamyn West
Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.
By Jessamyn West