Joan Slonczewski Quotes

#1. A life postponed too long might never be lived.

Joan Slonczewski

#2. Of all the well-meant emotions pity is the cruelest to share.

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#3. There was no time for bitterness now: eat bitterness, and bitterness eats you.

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#4. Death hastens those who hasten death.

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#5. A thousand fools believe a lie, and it's good as truth.

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#6. You are as responsible for what you let happen as for the actions you share.

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#7. If every planet in the Patriarchy refused to be ruled, we all would be free.

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#8. Few fears are rational.

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#9. They gave me eyes. All of you are beautiful; you shine like stars. But I must go away with them.

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#10. Death can be hastened but never shared.

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#11. That was the way to start, he knew: with unsureness. Only when the mind cracked open its own worldly certainties could a glimpse of light appear.

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#12. Usha had said that males were not all that different, just bigger outside to make up for what they lacked within.

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