"Love and grief and motherhood, Fame and mirth and scorn - these are all shall befall, Any woman born."

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Source : Margaret Widdemer (1917). “Factories, Poems”

Margaret Widdemer

#Grief Quotes #Motherhood Quotes #Mirth Quotes

“In romantic comedies there's a certain ceiling and a floor that you can't necessarily love as hard, or hate as hard, or have as much pain, because you sink the shop of the romantic comedy. But in a certain drama, like some of the ones I've been doing, the ceiling and the floor was my own. And in many ways, that was a higher ceiling and a lower floor, so that was more of a band-with for those emotions.”
“You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.”
“That's more like it. You're much prettier when you aren't talking. True of most people, I've found.”
“No matter what happens, there is always the business of the world to attend to.”
“I know it is something of a cliche to say that love makes all things possible, but I believe it does. It is not a magic wand that can be waved over life to make it all sweet and lovely and trouble free, but it can give the energy to fight the odds and win.”
“I was living in New York City and flat broke. My next door neighbor was an actor and he always seemed to be having more fun than I was. He convinced me to give acting a shot, but because of my shyness I was sure it would be a lost cause.”
“The big difference for me is that, as I get older, I find it's a lot easier to stay in shape than it is to get back in shape.”
“I was literally singing to myself on my way home, after the killing. The tension, the desire to kill a woman had built up in such explosive proportions that when I finally pulled the trigger, all the pressures, all the tensions, all the hatred, had just vanished, dissipated, but only for a short time.”

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