Carole Douglas > Carole's Quotes

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

“Anything worth thinking about is worth singing about.”
― Bob Dylan, The Essential Interviews

“Consider the cartoon character of Betty Boop.” “The baby-voiced twenties flapper with the huge eyes and the spit curls…boop-boop-a-doop?” “The cartoon was based on a singer named Helen Kane, but Kane grabbed her share of glory by imitating another singer, Annette Hanshaw. Both Kane and Hanshaw are pop culture footnotes today, almost a hundred years later, but Betty Boop has become a commercial icon of the flapper and lives on in cheesy merchandise everywhere.”
― Carole Nelson Douglas, Dancing With Werewolves

“What do women want?" Sigmund Freud cried. Books and cats are a good start.”
― Carole Nelson Douglas

“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is
alone.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca