"She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and delicate nature. I thought it was a sign that the corset made it hard to breathe."

-- Jeannette Walls

#Mom Quotes #Giving Quotes #Lace Quotes

“Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead.”
“Whether considered as a doctrine, or as an historical fact, or as a movemement, socialism, if it really remains socialism, cannotbe brought into harmony with the dogmas of the Catholic church.... Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.”
“We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.”
“Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.”
“Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.”
“Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.”

Source : "Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill".
“Peter's face clouded. "Everything comes at a price. Or have you not learned that yet?”
“Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.”

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