"I will and bequeath this book after my husband and myself are through with it, to my oldest grandson Bertie Williams....I trust what is worthy of emulation he may profit by.
"It is of more value to me than it could possibly be to my children, but I desire that it shall be kept in the family and treasured as a relic of by-gone days, not from any especial merit it possesses, but because I do not want to be forgotten."
(from Mollie: The Journal of Mollie Dorsey Sanford in Nebraska and Colorado Territories, 1857-1866, by Mollie Dorsey Sanford, U of Nebraska Press, 2003. p. xx).
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This is not a typical "quotes" blog. Rather than succinct sayings or tiny snippets of a writer's work, it is a slowly growing collection of text by and about women writers and artists. It also occasionally delves into how creative women handle marriage and children. The text is taken from creative women themselves, as well as from scholars and others writing about women in the arts.
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Topics/People Quoted
- acknowledgement (1)
- actors--Fonda-Jane (1)
- actors--Hepburn-Katherine (1)
- adolescence (2)
- African writers (1)
- African-American experience (1)
- artists--Bush-Kate (1)
- artists--Madonna (1)
- artists--mitchell-joni (1)
- autobiography (2)
- career (1)
- childhood (1)
- consciousness (2)
- criticism (1)
- domesticity (2)
- female body (2)
- feminine (2)
- feminist writers (4)
- humor (1)
- inspiration (1)
- journals (3)
- lyrics (1)
- men (1)
- midwives (1)
- money (1)
- motherhood (4)
- music (1)
- northrup-christiane (1)
- novelists (3)
- oral histories (1)
- pioneer women (1)
- poets (2)
- psychology (3)
- reading (2)
- reproduction (1)
- self-expression (4)
- singers (3)
- solitude (3)
- writers--Angelou-Maya (1)
- writers--Atwood-Margaret (1)
- writers--Austen-Jane (1)
- writers--Cartland-Dame Barbara (1)
- writers--Cofer-Judith Ortiz (1)
- writers--Danticat-Edwidge (1)
- writers--Dickinson-Emily (1)
- writers--Didion-Joan (1)
- writers--Dillard-Annie (1)
- writers--Dowd-Maureen (1)
- writers--hammad-suheir (1)
- writers--Harjo-Joy (1)
- writers--hooks-bell (2)
- writers--Kingsolver-Barbara (1)
- writers--L'Engle-Madeleine (1)
- writers--Lebowitz-Fran (1)
- writers--Minot-Susan (2)
- writers--Montagu-Ashley (1)
- writers--Morrison-Toni (1)
- writers--O'Connor-Flannery (1)
- writers--Oates-Joyce Carol (1)
- writers--Olsen-Tillie (1)
- writers--Parker-Dorothy (1)
- writers--Plath-Sylvia (2)
- writers--Rice-Anne (1)
- writers--rich-adrienne (1)
- writers--Roseman-Janet-Lynn (1)
- writers--Shields-Carol (1)
- writers--Smith-Katherine (1)
- writers--Tabios-Eileen (1)
- writers--Vera-Yvonne (2)
- writers--Walker-Alice (1)
- writers--Walker-Rebecca (1)
- writers--Welty-Eudora (1)
- writers--Woolf-Virginia (2)
- writers-childless (2)
- writers-English (2)
- writers-German (1)
- writers-Japanese (1)
- writing (2)
- writing process (1)
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