"An unusual sensation possesses my breast - a sensation which I once thought could never pervade it on any occasion whatever. It is pleasure, pleasure, my dear Lucy, on leaving my paternal roof."

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Source : William Wells Brown, Hannah Webster Foster (1996). “The Power of Sympathy and The Coquette”, p.107, Penguin

Hannah Webster Foster

#Women Quotes #Home Quotes #Leaving Quotes

“It's frightening to wake up one morning and discover that while you were asleep you went out of style.”
“My Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades.”
“I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.”
“I cannot learn creation from other people; I've got to do it myself. Now, honestly, I regret not studying - I don't know about harmonies, or anything, so if I'm composing a song, it's really hard.”
“The world is fleeting; all things pass away; Or is it we that pass and they that stay?”
“Casey (Stengel) knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet.”

Source : Sparky Anderson (1991). “Sparky!”, Prentice Hall
“The fastest I ever did that was when Kill the Moonlight came out after Girls Can Tell, and I remember both labels I was working with at the time saying, "If this was any other period, I would probably say this is too fast, but because this is first time anybody has ever paid attention to Spoon, let's keep it on an upward trajectory."”
“If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to.”

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