“I did crave attention, but I refused to humiliate myself by asking for it.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“I was the only one watching myself fall apart; that’s how I became the only one putting myself back together.”
― Flux
― Flux
“Most of the bankers also felt that women are more emotional, leas stable than men.
Not true! I think by nature a woman is more stable. Life gives her so many different things to cope with, and she learns almost from infancy to cope and not to let it show. A woman who has married and brought up children has had a thousand emergencies — illnesses, broken plumbing, appliances refusing to operate,the children’s naughtiness, her husband’s moods, the bills — and has trained herself to take them all astride.”
― My Way of Life
Not true! I think by nature a woman is more stable. Life gives her so many different things to cope with, and she learns almost from infancy to cope and not to let it show. A woman who has married and brought up children has had a thousand emergencies — illnesses, broken plumbing, appliances refusing to operate,the children’s naughtiness, her husband’s moods, the bills — and has trained herself to take them all astride.”
― My Way of Life
“So it turned out that power was the quality of knowing what you liked. An odd thing for power to be.”
― Eve's Hollywood
― Eve's Hollywood
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