"I'm just a tough old woman."

-- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#Tough Quotes #Old Woman Quotes

“Parsons always seem to be specially horrified about things like sunbathing and naked bodies. They don't mind poverty and misery and cruelty to animals nearly as much.”

Source : Susan Ertz (1931). “The Story of Julian”, New York D. Appleton 1931.
“The world is its own magic.”
“Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy.”
“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.”
“So in the drafting process, whenever I would discover something about what my character wanted or didn't want, I immediately just wanted my character to admit to that so I could get to the next, more interesting level in the story.”
“Bad habits: easy to develop and hard to live with. Good habits: hard to develop and easy to live with.”
“I abhor, too, the roaming lover, nor do I drink from every well; I loathe all things in common”

Source : Epigram 28 in R. Pfeiffer (ed.) 'Callimachus' (1949-53)
“I'm not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman's home with a drool cup.”

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