"I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times."

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Source : Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

Catherine Helen Spence

#Teacher Quotes #School Quotes #Age Quotes

“The rigidity of those pledges is something I donâ€™t like. The circumstances change and you canâ€™t be wedded to some formula by Grover Norquist. Itâ€™sâ€”who the hell is Grover Norquist, anyway?”
“If you don't learn to laugh at life it'll surely kill you, that I know.”
“I think I'll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker.”
“The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.”
“Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.”
“I know when to go and when to stop. I'm the red, the yellow, and the green light. That's me in a nutshell.”
“I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.”
“But I listen to live recordings of things that I did back in the '70s and then how I've done things since. And there's no doubt about it: if I compare the two, it's like chalk and cheese.”

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