"I have an evening dress, pink mull over silk (I'm perfectly beautiful in that), and a blue church dress, and a dinner dress of red veiling with Oriental trimming (makes me look like a Gipsy), and another of rose-coloured challis, and a grey street suit, and an every-day dress for classes. That wouldn't be an awfully big wardrobe for Julia Rutledge Pendleton, perhaps, but for Jerusha Abbott - Oh, my!"

-- Jean Webster

#Beautiful Quotes #Class Quotes #Blue Quotes

“Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free.”

Source : Judith Lewis Herman (1997). “Trauma and Recovery”, p.93, Basic Books
“I am quite wedded to the view that epistemologists should concern themselves with knowledge rather than our concept of knowledge. The analogy I like to draw here is with our understanding of (other) natural kinds.”
“At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.”
“We are concerned by the upward trend in the use of animals in scientific procedures...”
“All words have the "taste" of a profession, a genre, a tendency, a party, a particular work, a particular person, a generation, an age group, the day and hour. Each word tastes of the context and contexts in which it has lived its socially charged life.”
“I think Stieg Larsson was pretty brave. He wanted to bring up things that we don't like to talk about, or like to ignore.”
“All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.”

Source : Miles Franklin (1984). “The End of My Career”
“Jeanne Moreau, Lauren Bacall, they had this unconventional beauty, this amazing charisma.”

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