"Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious."

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Barbara Kingsolver

#Sleep Quotes #Done Quotes #Sleeping Alone Quotes

“Success means doing the best we can with what we have.”
“Duct tape is not a perfect solution to anything. But with a little creativity, in a pinch, it's an adequate solution to just about everything.”
“I am the first podiatrist to serve in the U.S. Congress.”
“In the course of the history of natural science, it always happens that profound or true thoughts or true facts were always either distorted or flattened out. The danger, especially of distortion, is particularly great in the case of orgonomy. We must be scientific, we cannot be political in these matters. And I personally declare that I will be the first to fight with all my strength, with whatever I've got against such a distortion of our principles.”
“The one who decides who goes ahead has the upper hand, regardless of who gets to go. This is why many women do not feel empowered by such privileges as having doors held open for them. The advantage of going first through the door is less salient to them than the disadvantage of being granted the right to walk through a door by someone who is framed, by his magnanimous gesture, as the arbiter of the right-of-way.”
“I guess that is my favorite thing - to make people laugh and also to maybe engage them emotionally and touch them somehow in telling the story.”

Source : "InDepth InterView: Lesley Nicol On DOWNTON ABBEY Season Four, Playing Mrs. Patmore, MAMMA MIA!, DOWNTON Musical? & More". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. December 23, 2013.
“Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.”

Source : "Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch". Book by Plutarch, translation by Bernadotte Perrin, "Solon", 2013.
“[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.”

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