Barbara Holland
Author profile
born
in Washington, D.C., The United States
April 05, 1933
died
September 07, 2010
gender
female
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Endangered Pleasures: In Defense of Naps, Bacon, Martinis, Profanity, and Other Indulgences
— published 1995 — 5 editions |
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They Went Whistling: Women Wayfarers, Warriors, Runaways, and Renegades
— published 2001 — 3 editions |
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When All the World Was Young: A Memoir
— 4 editions |
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The Joy of Drinking
— published 2007 — 3 editions |
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Gentlemen's Blood: A History of Dueling from Swords at Dawn to Pistols at Dusk
— published 2003 — 4 editions |
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Bingo Night at the Fire Hall: Rediscovering Life in an American Village
— published 1997 — 3 editions |
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Secrets of the Cat
— published 1988 — 8 editions |
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Hail to the Chiefs: Presidential Mischief, Morals, and Malarkey from George W. to George W
— published 1990 — 4 editions |
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Wasn't the Grass Greener?: Thirty-three Reasons Why Life Isn't as Good as It Used to Be
by Barbara Holland, Kati Steele — published 1999 — 3 editions |
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One's Company
— published 1992 — 3 editions |
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“There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one!”
― Barbara Holland
― Barbara Holland
“A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys. ”
― Barbara Holland
― Barbara Holland
“Drink, the social glue of the human race. Probably in the beginning we could explain ourselves to our close family members with grunts, muttered syllables, gestures, slaps, and punches. Then when the neighbors started dropping in to help harvest, stomp, stir, and drink the bounty of the land, after we'd softened our natural suspicious hostility with a few stiff ones, we had to think up some more nuanced communications, like words. From there it was a short step to grammar, civil law, religion, history, and "The Whiffenpoof Song.”
― Barbara Holland, The Joy of Drinking
― Barbara Holland, The Joy of Drinking
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