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Kathleen Norris
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“Home ought to be our clearing house, the place from which we go forth lessoned and disciplined, and ready for life.”
Kathleen Norris (1880–1966) first seen 1928 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Home (1928)
“I write what I would like to read – what I think other women would like to read. If what I write makes a woman in the Canadian mountains cry and she writes and tells me about it, especially if she says ‘I read it to Tom when he came in from work and he cried too,’ I feel I have succeeded.”
Kathleen Norris (1880–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kathleen Norris, on the publication of her seventy-eighth book, as cited in: James Charlton. The Writer's quotation book. 1985. p. 34
“What is enough? Are there enough trees here? As always, it seems that, the more I can distinguish my true needs from my wants, the more of a shock it is to realize how little is enough.”
Kathleen Norris (1880–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dreaming of Trees" anthologized in The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World edited by Linda Hogan and Brenda Peterson (2001)