Kathleen Norris

Quotes by Kathleen Norris

• When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening. . . . I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books.

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• Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as drudgery or essential, life-supporting work, do not define who we are as women or as human beings.

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• I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?

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• This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship.

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• The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances.

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• When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening. . . . I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books.

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• I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?

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• The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances.

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• This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship.

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• Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as drudgery or essential, life-supporting work, do not define who we are as women or as human beings.

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• Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting for one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

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• Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

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• When you are unhappy or dissatisfied, is there anything in the world more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

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• Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence.

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• Men are more conventional than women and much slower to change their ideas.

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