Willa catheter autobiography for kids
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About Our Namesake
“There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves fiercely as if they had never happened before.”
“Where there is great love, there is always wishes.”
“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.”
“The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.”
“Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.”
"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.”
“The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.”
"Without that literal account of something that happened to me when I was between f
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Willa Cather
American writer (1873–1947)
Willa Sibert Cather (;[1] born Wilella Sibert Cather;[2] December 7, 1873[A] – April 24, 1947) was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I.
Willa Cather and her family moved from Virginia to Webster County, Nebraska, when she was nine years old. The family later settled in the town of Red Cloud. Shortly after graduating from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Cather moved to Pittsburgh for ten years, supporting herself as a magazine editor and high school English teacher. At the age of 33, she moved to New York City, her primary home for the rest of her life, though she also traveled widely and spent considerable time at her summer residence on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick. She spent the last 39 years of h
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Willa Cather facts for kids
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| Born | Wilella Sibert Cather (1873-12-07)December 7, 1873 Gore, Virginia, U.S. |
| Died | April 24, 1947(1947-04-24) (aged 73) New York City, U.S. |
| Resting place | Jaffrey, New Hampshire, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Period | 1905–1947 |
| Partner | Edith Lewis (c. 1908–1947) |
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Willa Sibert Cather (; born Wilella Sibert Cather; December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I.
Willa Cather and her family moved from Virginia to Webster County, Nebraska, when she was nine years old. The family later settled in the town of Red Cloud. Shortly after graduating from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Cather moved to Pittsburgh for ten years, supporting herself