"The praise of injudicious friends frequently fosters bad mannerisms."

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Source : Elisabeth Marbury (1924). “My Crystal Ball: Reminiscences”, New York : Boni and Liveright

Elisabeth Marbury

“You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks.”
“I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.”
“I had my two front teeth knocked out by a sixth grader in first grade.”
“Crystal-clear thinking is one of the things we look for - not a fancy slide pitch, but crystal-clear thinking.”
“One of the most widespread myths about the deal is that the Administration is outsourcing the security of our ports to a company from the United Arab Emirates.”
“The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go very quickly.”

Source : "Margaret Atwood Interview". Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. December 2, 2010.
“The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth.”
“Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.”

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