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"I pray for miracles. I have always found prayer to bring quick results." -- Martha Reeves

Martha Reeves (born 1941) is an Anglican solitary (or anchorite). A graduate of the Madeira School, Class of 1959, she is also a Stanford educated professor of theology and a mystic under vows to the Archbishop of Canterbury. She has written a series of books under the name "Maggie Ross", most notably The Fire Of Your Life.

She spends her summers living in solitude in a remote part of Alaska and her winters teaching in Oxford and elsewhere.

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"A large family makes you accept sharing your parents.""A song has to become as much a part of you as a tailored suit.""After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.""Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we're famous all over the world.""Detroit is full of talent.""Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.""Divas need their furs!""God uses singers in a mighty way, and I am grateful.""Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply.""Good and bad - this is the story of my life.""I don't worry about being in a hurry any more, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.""I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life.""I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality.""I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic.""I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.""I will always dance in the street.""I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.""If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.""Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit.""Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members.""The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.""The world I was born into was one filled with music.""There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.""You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too."

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Total Books: 9

Dancing in the Street Confessions of a Motown Diva (Hardcover) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780786860241
ISBN-10: 0786860243
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Humor & Entertainment

Dancing in the Street Confessions of a Motown Diva (Paperback) → Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780786880942
ISBN-10: 0786880945
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Humor & Entertainment

Currently 3/5 Stars.

Evaluation of Training (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781844390199
ISBN-10: 1844390195

Evaluation of Training [Manager's Pocket Guides] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781858350936
ISBN-10: 185835093X

Linda Ronstadt Rock's First Female Superstar (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781089397243
ISBN-10: 1089397240
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

Weave Leno Indepth Instructions for All Levels with 7 Projects (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780764351013
ISBN-10: 076435101X
Genre: Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Women in Business Theory and Cases (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781138949256
ISBN-10: 1138949256
Genre: Business & Money

Women in Business Theory Case Studies and Legal Challenges (Hardcover) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780415778022
ISBN-10: 0415778026
Genres: Business & Money, Law

Women in Business Theory Case Studies and Legal Challenges (Paperback) → Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780415778039
ISBN-10: 0415778034
Genres: Business & Money, Law

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