"My mother's one idea was to sacrifice her life to her children and she had done nothing else since the death of my father. We wished that she had married again instead."

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Source : Peggy Guggenheim (2016). “Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim”, p.21, Ravenio Books

Peggy Guggenheim

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“We are not limited by money, but rather by the poverty of our own dreams.”
“I had to live this long, have the experiences I've had, to create what I do. I knew I wanted to write for years, but I had to be ready so I wouldn't blow it. The move to Maine was the final step.”
“... our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity for a higher education is fully shown. This is the best work women of wealth can do, and I hope in the future they will endow scholarships for their own sex instead of giving millions of dollars to institutions for boys, as they have done in the past.”
“I wanted to act, dance and perform more than anything, and I wanted to do it for the rest of my life.”
“Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.”
“Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees.”
“I sustained an injury by singing with the flu during the second performance of Andrea Chenier in Buenos Aires. I was very sick, with chills and sweats, but against my better judgement I let them talk me into singing. Of course I gave the performance everything I had and my voice was hurt. It was scary at first, but fortunately there was no permanent damage. I just had to be patient and wait for the voice to return. It took six weeks of physical recuperation and it took time to recover my confidence as well.”
“When you're comfortable in your own skin, you look beautiful, regardless of any flaws.”

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