"Create your own path and stop waiting for things to come your way. The longer you wait, the further others go."

“You know, I change my hair color a lot, I do all sorts of different things.”

“Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.”

“Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.”

“Every man over forty is a scoundrel.”

“My love affairs were more often about the fantasy than the actual person I was involved with.”

“Gromit was the name of a cat. When I started modeling the cat I just didn't feel it was quite right, so I made it into a dog because he could have a bigger nose and bigger, longer legs.”

“True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.”

“I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it.”

Source : Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.63, New Victoria Publishers