"A faint smell of lilac filled the air. There was always lilac in this part of town. Where there were grandmothers, there was always lilac."

-- Laura Miller

#Grandmother Quotes #Air Quotes #Smell Quotes

“My heart is sick / and I didn’t make it out.”
“All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you're playing.”
“Clothing, hair and make-up are just reflective of how I am feeling at any given moment and that varies from day to day.”
“These poems possess intelligence, erudition, gravitas and urgency. Serious and moving in voice and ambition, this passionately lyrical and articulate work reminds me very much of the capacious, fierce and intelligent work of Adrienne Rich.”
“Soil erosion is as old as agriculture. It began when the first heavy rain struck the first furrow turned by a crude implement of tillage in the hands or prehistoric man. It has been going on ever since, wherever man's culture of the earth has bared the soil to rain and wind.”
“It seems to me that we have to draw the line in sibling rivalry whenever rivalry goes out of bounds into destructive behavior of aphysical or verbal kind. The principle needs to be this: Whatever the reasons for your feelings you will have to find civilized solutions.”
“Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.”

Source : Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.38, Vintage
“I have a lot of beliefs and I live by none of them.”

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