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Karen Cushman Biography

Karen Cushman (born October 4, 1941)) is an American writer of historical fiction. Her 1995 novel The Midwife's Apprentice won the Newbery Medal for children's literature, and her 1994 novel Catherine, Called Birdy won a Newbery Honor. She has a bachelor of arts degree in Greek and English from Stanford University. In addition, she has a master's degree in human behavior as well as a master's degree in museum studies. For eleven years she was adjunct professor in the Museum Studies Department at John F. Kennedy University before resigning in 1996 to write full-time. She lives and writes on Vashon Island near Seattle, Washington.

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. . . . I cannot escape my life but can only use my determination and courage to make it the best I can.

Courage, Determination, Escape, I Can, Use

I watched the early morning light pass over and through the windows of colored glass, leaving streaks of red and green and yellow on the stone floor. When I was little, I used to try and capture the colored light. I thought I could hold it in my hand and carry it home. Now I know it is like happiness-- it is there or it is not, you cannot hold it or keep it.

Carry, Home, Morning, Streaks, Watched, Yellow

. . . she dreamed of nothing, for she hoped for nothing and expected nothing. It was as cold and dark inside her as out in the frosty night.

Cold, Dark, Dreamed, Expected, Frosty, Night

Just because you don't know everything don't mean you know nothing.

Everything, Know, Knows, Mean, Nothing

I have developed a rash on my body where the rough cloth rubs on my skin. I wanted to take a bath, thinking that the dirt on my skin made the rash worse, but the bathing tub has been turned upside down and is being used as an extra table in the kitchen and i cannot have it until spring, so I just spread goose grease on my rash. The dogs are following me everywhere.

Bathing, Dog, Spring, Thinking, Turned, Upside

Seems to me home is where I am loved and safe and needed.

Home, Loved, Needed, Safe

Corpus Bones! I utterly loathe my life.

Bones, Corpus, Loathe, Utterly

Just as a river by night shines with the reflected light of the moon, so too do you shine with the light of your family, your people, and your God. So you are never far from home, never alone, wherever you go.

Home, Moon, Night, Reflected, River, Shines

Seems to me God made a big mistake when He failed to put handles on watermelons.

Food, God, Handles, Made, Mistake, Watermelons

I think sometimes that people are like onions. On the outside smooth and whole and simple but inside ring upon ring, complex and deep.

Simple, Thinking, People, Ring, Whole, Deep

Fathers should make you feel safe.

Father, Fathers, Make, Safe, Should

Minds, like diapers, need occasional changing.

Changing, Diapers, Mind, Minds, Needs

Love brightens and purifies the heart.

Brightens, Heart, Love, Purifies

I want to remake the world; anything less is not worth the trouble.

Remake, Trouble, Want, World, Worth