Remember your creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come, and the years draw near when you will say, "I ha...ve no pleasure in them"; before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return with the rain; in the day when the guards of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the women who grind cease working because they are few, and those who look through the windows see dimly; when the doors on the street are shut, and the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low; when one is afraid of heights, and terrors are in the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along and desire fails; because all must go to their eternal home, and the mourners will go about the streets; before the silver cord is snapped, and the golden bowl is broken, and the pitcher is broken at the fountain, and the wheel broken at the cistern, and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was the feeling of a passenger on an ocean steamer whose mind will not give him rest until he has been in the engine-room and t...alked with the engineer. She wanted to see with her own eyes the action of primary forces; to touch with her own eyes the action of primary forces; to touch with her own hand the massive machinery of society; to measure with her own mind the capacity of the motive power. She was bent upon getting to the heart of the great American mystery of democracy and government.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for t...he most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I asked her to look at me and after a few moments--(pause)Mbut the eyes just slits, because of the glare. I bent over her to get t...hem in the shadow and they opened. (Pause. Low.) Let me in. (Pause.) We drifted in among the flags and such. The way they went down, sighing, before the stem!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an ongoing p...olitical mechanism bent on the destruction of that human being. Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »