Janet Benton Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Janet Benton
So little for a woman is permissible- yet on her back every human climbs to adulthood. — Janet Benton
1883. Third Month 16
Some moments set my heart on fire, and that's when language seems the smallest. Yet precisely these bursts of feeling make me long to write. I sit now in a high-walled courtyard, amid the green smells and slanted light of early spring, with that familiar burning in my heart. I'll need to destroy these pages before returning home, but no matter; for the first time since Mother's death, words come to me. — Janet Benton