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Quotes by Natalie Clifford Barney on Life and Love

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Natalie Clifford Barney (1876 – 1972) was an American-born poet and novelist also known for her epigrams and pensées.  Here you’ll find a selection of quotes by Natalie Clifford Barney on life and love, from a woman who lived and loved to the fullest.

Barney was an expat living the high life in early twentieth-century Paris where she presided over a famous literary salon.

Though she published ten critically acclaimed books, she seems to be equally remembered for her colorful personal life as one of the movers and shakers of the Parisian lesbian circles of the time. She also used the wealth and privilege she was born into as a means of promoting other talented writers and artists. Read More→

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Doris Lessing, author of The Golden Notebook

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Doris Lessing, (October 22, 1919 – November 17, 2013) was a British novelist, playwright, poet, short story writer, and biographer. One of the most revered voices in modern literature, she has written intelligently and passionately about politics, parenting, aging, love relationships, and feminism. 

She was born Doris May Tayler in what was then Persia (present-day Iran) to British parents, Captain Alfred Tayler and Emily Maude Tayler. When she was five, her parents moved with her to Rhodesia (what is now Zimbabwe) to farm crops on one thousand acres of land.

Observing the strife caused by the British in their colonial rule of the African nation, she developed a strong moral compass and political bent. Read More→

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