Kathleen Norris
Kathleen Norris
Kathleen Thompson Norriswas a popular American novelist and newspaper columnist. She was one of the most widely read and highest paid female writers in the United States for nearly fifty years, from 1911 to 1959. Her stories appeared in the Atlantic, The American Magazine, McClure's, Everybody's, Ladies' Home Journal and Woman's Home Companion, and she wrote 93 novels, many of which were best sellers. She used her fiction to promote values including the sanctity of marriage, the nobility of motherhood,...
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Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
accept bear easier life necessary
Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
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In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary
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Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate
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In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
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They are fruit and transport: ripening melons, prairie schooners journeying under full sail.
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I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity and ability to cope with change.
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When you come to a place where you have to left or right,' says Sister Ruth, 'go straight ahead.
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The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.
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Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as drudgery or essential, life-supporting work, do not define who we are as women or as human beings.
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The High Plains, the beginning of the desert West, often act as a crucible for those who inhabit them.