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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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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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Experience
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Ellen Glasgow
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The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough to make himself heard. – Ellen Glasgow

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Miscellaneous
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Needlework
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Good friends are like quilts – they age with you yet never lose their warmth. – Author Unknown

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Needlework

Memories are stitched with love. – Author Unknown

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Needlework

Needlepoint is a superb way to stop smoking and nibbling, and unlike counted cross stitch also allows the mind to wander. – Carole Berman and Jennifer Lazarus

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Needlework

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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Needlework

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