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“ ”Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
About Pearl S. Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (born Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker; Chinese: 赛珍珠; Pinyin: Sài Zhēnzhū; 26 June 1892 – 6 March 1973), primarily known as Pearl S. Buck, was a prolific American writer. In 1938, she became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Additional quotes by Pearl S. Buck
They were prisoners, trapped by old ways of life, jailed within the imperial palace. He was no more free than she was. Yet only she could do what she would. If she said she would be Empress, then none could hold her back.
Body and soul are partners, and neither must desert the other.
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.