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Letter "Y" » yearning
«The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question: ''Is this all?''»
Author: Betty Friedan
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«The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.»
Author: Iris Murdoch
(Novelist, Philosopher)
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«Yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but also a pretty good place to hide out from hard truth.»
«When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.»
«There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.»
Author: Christopher Morley
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«Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.»
«The universal human yearning for something permanent, enduring, without shadow of change.»
«When the yearning for living ends, there can be no more birth.»
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