"I find the treatment of royalty distinctly peculiar. The royal family lives in palaces heavily screened from prying eyes by fences, grounds, gates, guards, all designed to ensure the family absolute privacy. And every newspaper in London carried headlines announcing PRINCESS ANNE HAS OVARIAN CYST REMOVED. I mean you're a young girl reared in heavily guarded seclusion and every beer drinker in every pub knows the precise state of your ovaries."

-- Helene Hanff

#Girl Quotes #Princess Quotes #Mean Quotes

“I wonder if it is harder for a woman who was beautiful to get older or a woman who was never looked at.”
“When I am home alone I like to scatter my tackle across the floor and play with it. I may pretend I am working on it, performing preventative maintenance, but really it is playing.”

Source : Howell Raines (1994). “Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis”, Anchor
“I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.”
“At the end of the day, things don't get better unless you continue to invest in your workforce. And I've not heard any Republican talk about education and the investment in the future workforce.”

Source : "On @CNNSOTU today: Gov. Bev Perdue, @GovernorOMalley, and @villaraigosa discuss #DNC2012". Interview with Candy Crowley, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. September 2, 2012.
“We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.”
“We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years.”
“Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't make a sound until you say something to the crowd.”
“Even though I'm over 35, I feel like so much more of a leading lady than I did when I was 30.”

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