“There’s too much to let go of and too much to keep.”
— Tennessee Williams, from Selected Stories; “Oriflamme,” c. January 1944
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— Miguel Hernández, from Selected Poems; “Today I Have Plenty of Heart,”
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— Sandra Cisneros, from Woman at Hollering Creek: Stories; “Never Marry a Mexican,”
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— Gustave Flaubert, from “Madame Bovary,” published c. October 1856
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Simone de Beauvoir, from “The Woman Destroyed,” published c. 1967
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