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Throughout the crowded ballroom
there's naught but gladness and mirth;
not one of them all that hath felt it--
the weary burden of earth;
not one of them all that hath felt it--
not one that could ever guess
how, under the veil of rejoicing...
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man's law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
Writing has been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
There is nothing so enervating and exhausting as this hopeless waiting. I dare say this is only a transition period. I will and shall have a victory some day. If the powers that be have shown me so little favor as to place me in this world and make me what I am, the result must be accordingly.
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself: thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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