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Barbara Kingsolver Quotes: A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't this world would end at once.
         

A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't this world would end at once.


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