"Sometimes being a good mother gets in the way of being a good person."

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Source : Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1998). “A Woman of Independent Means”, p.193, Penguin

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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“Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.”
“Cruelty is easy, cheap and rampant.”
“Getting your education is an advantage you have.”
“Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine ordinance of government, in every stage of the ascent, was adjustable on principles of common reason to the actual condition of a people, and always had for its objects, in the benevolent councils of the divine wisdom, the happiness, the expansion, the security, the elevation of society, and the redemption of man. They sought in vain for any title of authority of man over man, except of superior capacity and higher morality.”
“I guess that's the oddest personality trait for me - I'm too dumb and naïve to ever really be nervous about anything. I just don't take it all that seriously. I'm much more happy to go home and lay on the couch and watch I Dream of Jeannie with my fiancée and our dog.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.”

Source : Gail Caldwell (2010). “Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship”, p.180, Random House
“It [a new world order] needs only that the governments of Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and Russia should get together in order to set up an effective control of currency, credit, production, and distribution â€“ that is to say, an effective â€˜dictatorship of prosperity,â€™ for the whole world. The other sixty odd States would have to join in or accommodate themselves to the over-ruling decisions of these major Powers.”
“Lately I've been struck with how I really love what you can't see in a photograph. An actual physical darkness. And it's very thrilling for me to see darkness again.”

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