Sena Jeter Naslund citations

“If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for hanging dead.”

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Sena Jeter Naslund

Source: Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer

“Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman who both thinks and feels deeply.”

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Sena Jeter Naslund

Source: Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer

“Where we choose to be, where we choose to be--we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being.”

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Sena Jeter Naslund

Source: Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer

“She seemed imprisoned in her sadness.”

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Sena Jeter Naslund

Source: Four Spirits