Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when … - Lynne Sharon Schwartz

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Apollo wasn't just about sending people into space. It transformed so much of our economy. From our education system to so many of the things we use today, it was a vision that led to the total transformation of the planet.

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their stretches and leaps and jumps to the tune of words.

Athlete, Dancer, Dancers, Self, Stretches, Tune

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I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?

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My head aches, my eyes burn, my arms and legs have given up, and my face in the mirror has a grayish cast. The bed, across the room, calls in its unmistakable lover's croon, Come to me, come, only I can make you truly happy, oh, how happy I'll make you, don't resist, remember how you moan with pleasure the instant we touch. . . . . Laura Acosta

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Getting away from being 'a good girl' is important because it's impossible to be a 'good girl' and a writer at the same time.

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Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.

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Head held high and lips parted, she breathed in the music, sending it through her torso and arms and legs the way the Tai Chi teacher told us to breath the air, transforming it into energy, motion. Dancing is the body's song, and Bess sang.

Air, Breath, Song, Teacher, Told