"Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that."

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Source : Emily Prager (1987). “A visit from the footbinder, and other stories”, Vintage

Emily Prager

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“I will look through 200 photographs of Kate Moss and there will be just one that I connect with for some reason, maybe because of the composition or something in the eye... Something touches me and I know I have to paint it, in the way a child knows it wants something.”

Source : "Stars in her eyes". Hermione Eyre, The Independent on Sunday, July 15, 2007.
“I am not being facetious when I say that the real enemies in this country are the Pentagon and its pals in big business.”
“The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth century. Its drag as to time of official proclamation is a drag as to social vision. And even if equal rights were now written into the law of our land, it would be so inadequate today as a means to food, clothing and shelter for woman at large that what they would still be enjoying would be equality in disaster rather than in realistic privilege.”
“To maintain nice relation with the people is half of intelligence, nice questioning is half of knowledge, and nice domestic arrangements is half of the management of livelihood.”
“You change the most permanent-seeming conditions of your life constantly through the varying attitudes you have toward them.”

Source : Jane Roberts (2011). “The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know”, p.35, Amber-Allen Publishing
“It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.”
“An Individual, whatever species it might be, is nothing in the Universe. A hundred, a thousand individuals are still nothing. The species are the only creatures of Nature, perpetual creatures, as old and as permanent as it. In order to judge it better, we no longer consider the species as a collection or as a series of similar individuals, but as a whole independent of number, independent of time, a whole always living, always the same, a whole which has been counted as one in the works of creation, and which, as a consequence, makes only a unity in Nature.”
“May God blast anyone who writes a biography of me.”

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