"There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing that causes oysters to produce pearls."

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Source : Sheila Ballantyne (1983). “Imaginary crimes”, Penguin Group USA

Sheila Ballantyne

#Oysters Quotes #Pearls Quotes #Aces Quotes

“Live on coffee and flowers. Try not to worry what the weather will be.”
“Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness.”
“What has made it work, or what makes certain paintings successful or not, has to do with my being a painter and a thinking, feeling person, more than my sex, color, height, origin.”
“I try to be like a forest: revitalizing and constantly growing.”

Source : Interview with Baird Jones in New York Post, December 11, 1999.
“Yoga is the only exercise in the world you can do at any age. There is always some posture that will improve your health, mind and soul.”
“All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.”
“The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.”
“I am not saying that a female-dominated or Amazon society based on the oppression of men is any more "just" than is a male-dominated society based on the oppression of women. I am merely pointing out in what ways it is better for women. [Â¶] Perhaps someday a choice between forms of injustice will not be necessary.”

Source : "Women and Madness". Book by Phyllis Chesler, 2005.

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