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One good thing about it is how it wises you up early to what most men want from a woman.
Orna Ross Quotes: One good thing about it
When life disappoints, one must apply one's will, not crumple.
Orna Ross Quotes: When life disappoints, one must
On Christmas Eve morning, hours before Zach left or Star arrived, my father asked me to kill him. I'd spent some of that night in a chair at the end of his bed. At one point, he woke and started to panic, then remembering,
Orna Ross Quotes: On Christmas Eve morning, hours
When one is busy, as she was in Donegal, life whistles by. One struggles to keep up with oneself. It is vital, when one slows down, to be conscious of small things, small moments. To take pains.
Orna Ross Quotes: When one is busy, as
Whatever happened to 'mother knows best'?
Orna Ross Quotes: Whatever happened to 'mother knows
Women come more easily to that wisdom which ancient peoples, and all wild peoples even now, think the only wisdom.
Orna Ross Quotes: Women come more easily to
You know, Mercy, it is really very simple." He took my hand. "He has no power, hon. Not unless you hand yours over.
Orna Ross Quotes: You know, Mercy, it is
If you can't change your mind, you can't change anything.
Orna Ross Quotes: If you can't change your
Our wound is our way.
Orna Ross Quotes: Our wound is our way.
The body has been used as a form of social control through the ages and how a mature economy can only achieve growth by making us feel abject, hungry and isolated from ourselves and each other. Making us hate ourselves from the inside out ensures we will overspend, over-consume and over-indulge ...
Orna Ross Quotes: The body has been used
The eyes of the creative spirit can see in all directions.
Orna Ross Quotes: The eyes of the creative
He has had her today but he has not had her. No man ever shall.
Orna Ross Quotes: He has had her today
Where there's life, there's learning, and the truth is always calling us out of our pride. If we don't harken, it will call louder, and throw a situation at us. A pebble at first. If we still don't listen, we'll get a stone. Then a rock. Then a great crashing boulder. We must learn, or die.
Orna Ross Quotes: Where there's life, there's learning,
All our lives, we long, we long, thinking it is the moon we long for. So how, when we meet it in the shape of a most fair woman, can we do less than leave all others for her? WB Yeats
Orna Ross Quotes: All our lives, we long,
A great poet can give nobler and more precious gifts to his country than the greatest philanthropist or politician.
Orna Ross Quotes: A great poet can give
You can trust in nothing. Nothing is always there, holding all.
Orna Ross Quotes: You can trust in nothing.
In ancient Ireland the soul had but to stretch out its arms to fill them with beauty. Now all manner of ugliness besets the world.
Orna Ross Quotes: In ancient Ireland the soul
He has been preparing his life and his poetry for just such a woman, just such intermingling of beauty and sorrow and mystery. But a woman like her will not settle into the role of helpmeet or muse; she is too adventurous, too vital, too fond of sensation. She will want to be, an ally. An equal. What can he, a poor student of poetry, offer her? Only his words.
Orna Ross Quotes: He has been preparing his
It takes a great reader to make a great book.
Orna Ross Quotes: It takes a great reader
We who have seen the truth will reshape the world, and Ireland shall be our entrance to this world beyond words.
Orna Ross Quotes: We who have seen the
How could I not stand myself? Was I one person or two?
Orna Ross Quotes: How could I not stand
They were magnificent all right, with the magnificence that can only grow in the ground of great foolishness.
Orna Ross Quotes: They were magnificent all right,
I need a pill." "What about the pump?" "No, a pill." I took the container, a new one, nearly full, from its place on the window, shook one pill
Orna Ross Quotes: I need a pill.
I shook my head, just as I had back then. "Let the one you've just had take effect," I said. "You'll feel better then." "There's no better for me." He put his fingers on my wrist, his grip surprisingly tight. "Please. Have mercy." But the pill was already beginning its work, or maybe it was the effort of making the request, of taking my arm, of saying such words. His eyelids began to droop. "You're a clever girl, always were," he whispered. "You know what to do." His eyes closed on the first compliment he ever gave me.
Orna Ross Quotes: I shook my head, just
Calling all mothers! Some advice for you. If you have a little girl, don't be the kind of mother who says: "All I want is for her to be happy." No, no, no. Want her to be top of her class. Want her to become Chairman of the Board. Want her to marry a millionaire. Want something negotiable, so she has room to rebel. If all you want is for her to be happy, all she can do to separate from you is be miserable.
Orna Ross Quotes: Calling all mothers! Some advice
He loves the most beautiful woman in the world. And like Sir Lancelot, he shall love her exceedingly well.
Orna Ross Quotes: He loves the most beautiful
How you do money is how you do life.
Orna Ross Quotes: How you do money is
Mr. Yeats makes great poetry out of what he calls his unhappiness about me, and he is happy in that. - Maud Gonne
Orna Ross Quotes: Mr. Yeats makes great poetry
All indies self-publish but not all self-publishers are indie.
Orna Ross Quotes: All indies self-publish but not
I came to hate how everything gets junked in America: the food processed and adulterated with sugar and fat; the clothes cheapened; the TV dumbed down; the sex commodified. So that no matter how much we're given, we never feel sated, we're always craving. I came to see how we're addicted to addiction.
Orna Ross Quotes: I came to hate how
We parked in the lot by the lake and as we emerged from the car, the mountains seemed to have closed in around us and the quiet was palpable, inescapable, underlined by the distant, humming rush of Poulnapass Waterfall.
Orna Ross Quotes: We parked in the lot
When looked at from the woman's side of the bed-sheet, most tales take a turning.
Orna Ross Quotes: When looked at from the
It's good to have an end in mind but in the end what counts is how you travel.
Orna Ross Quotes: It's good to have an
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