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Category: Jeannine Atkins

Jeannine Atkins

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.

poverty, wealth

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.

father-daughter, science, verse-novel

Jeannine Atkins

As Maria Mitchell pointed out in 1875, ‘Science needs women’.

finding-wonders, science

Jeannine Atkins

There’s more in the earth than anyone knows. We’ll find wonders.

finding-wonders, jeannine-watkins, science

Jeannine Atkins

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.

finding-wonders, science, women

Jeannine Atkins

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.

change, knowledge, learning, progress

Jeannine Atkins

Love’s language is imprecise,fits more like mittens than gloves.

Jeannine Atkins

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.

change, knowledge, learning, progress

Jeannine Atkins

Love’s language is imprecise,fits more like mittens than gloves.