Sigrid Nunez Quotes

You might not remember what you had for dinner last night, but you remember everything about one particular summer of your youth. It's like that.

Sigrid Nunez

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• However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.

  

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• You might not remember what you had for dinner last night, but you remember everything about one particular summer of your youth. It's like that.

  

  Sigrid Nunez
  • Remember
  • Summer
  • Youth