“Names and knowledge change, the way the turningworld brings color or deep shadows, without a soundeven as soft as the twist of a key in a lock.”
“Names and knowledge change, the way the turningworld brings color or deep shadows, without a soundeven as soft as the twist of a key in a lock.”
Jeannine Atkins
“Stars crown the world, she said, but the lights in your eyes, those are stars, too. They make up your crown, he said.”
Jeannine Atkins, Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science“There's more in the earth than anyone knows. We'll find wonders.”
Jeannine Atkins, Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science“No one wants to stumble into gates on moonless nights to trip in holes dug by dogs, but Maria finds more beauty than danger in night.”
Jeannine Atkins, Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science“As Maria Mitchell pointed out in 1875, 'Science needs women'.”
Jeannine Atkins, Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science“Names and knowledge change, the way the turningworld brings color or deep shadows, without a soundeven as soft as the twist of a key in a lock.”
Jeannine Atkins, Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science“One can slide between poor and rich, the difference as slight as between paper and parchment, one voice and a choir, arms hanging by sides and a hug.”
Jeannine Atkins, Borrowed Names: Poems About Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C.J. Walker, Marie Curie, and Their Daughters“Love's language is imprecise,fits more like mittens than gloves.”
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