Mary Borden famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids.
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It is a pity we do not die when our lives are finished.
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I see no reason why I should not live on indefinitely just as I have done, and on the whole I am more comfortable here than in Purgatory, a place that I imagine to be like the suburbs of London.
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Love, is it? First you lose your appetite, then you lose your tongue, then you take leave of your senses, and that's love!
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One wants more time, more youth. That is it. That is all one asks for - nothing but that, a little more time. Hear it running by! Listen! In the night, in the morning, at noon, at even, rushing by, silent, stealthy, trying to hoodwink you by the fixed appearance of things that seem not to change; but never stopping. Oh, to stop it! Oh, to get it back! Oh, to dig one's toes in and refuse to be rushed headlong towards the brink!
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I am a woman. My life is a long, strong, twisted rope, made up of a number of human relationships, nothing more.
-- Mary Borden
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Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
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You are in the field to defend the public interest, the financial truth for investors and the funds that should support the widow and the orphan.
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I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record.
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My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.
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Just as the Torah and Bible teach concern for those in distress, the Koran instructs all Muslims to make caring for widows, orphans, and refugees a priority.
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Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.
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Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.
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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.
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Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid.
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