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Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting. - El

Women like to sit down with trouble – as if it were knitting. – Ellen Glasgow

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Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. – Ellen Glasgow

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No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book. – Ellen Glasgow

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Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting. – Benjamin Franklin

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The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path. – Mason Cooley

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Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as they are never more at home with their own hearts than while so occupied. – Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun, 1859

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Any day spent sewing, is a good day. – Author Unknown

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