Cozy Leading Ladies Quotes

“There had always been battle lines drawn between the upper administration and the faculty. Even those who had once been faculty immediately began to view their former colleagues as troublesome children. She had once toyed seriously with the idea of university administration, and had even attended one of those academic leadership development seminars at Charles’s request and the university’s expense. But once she heard one of the speakers encourage the participants to consider boning up on child psychology and further suggested imagining one’s faculty colleagues as characters in Winnie the Pooh, she knew she could never cross over to the dark side, as the professorial wing of academe called the upper administration.”
― Julie Smith, Cozy Leading Ladies

“He always felt like he had lived his life in between spaces, at the crossroads of cultures. Between cultures, places, and people. Africa, America, France. He took them all for himself, for they all belonged to him, blending them to create a new self, one that he believed could represent the future”
― Julie Smith, Cozy Leading Ladies

“Louis de Bourbon and his right hands Cardinal Mazarin and Jean-Louis Colbert transformed France, particularly the city of Paris, into a haven for civilized society, a refuge for the arts, a gastronomic mecca for gourmands. That is what Georges-Guillaume Damas wanted to do for Gabon in Africa.”
― Julie Smith, Cozy Leading Ladies

“J’ai fait mon choix. J’ai pas de regrets.”
― Julie Smith, Cozy Leading Ladies

“cou rouge”
― Julie Smith, Cozy Leading Ladies

“Even as we desire new life and more life, we must realize that a part of us— of each individual person, black or white— has to die into that new life.”
― Julie Smith, Cozy Leading Ladies

“l’esclavage.”
― Julie Smith, Cozy Leading Ladies

“Despite the French passage of the Taubira Law in 2001, which recognized slavery and the slave trade as a crime against humanity, the French continued to believe they were never as bad as the Americans.”
― Julie Smith, Cozy Leading Ladies

“To her mind, things had been settled between them. I will keep my own counsel from now on. She”
― Julie Smith, Cozy Leading Ladies

“Philippe Starck.”
― Julie Smith, Cozy Leading Ladies

“Res ipsa loquitur.”
― Julie Smith, Cozy Leading Ladies

“My God!” I said. “It’s the Platonic cathouse.” “Not exactly the word I’d choose under the circumstances,” said”
― Julie Smith, Cozy Leading Ladies