"I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an anxious world."

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Source : Diana Trilling (1993). “The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling”, Harcourt

Diana Trilling

#Women Quotes #World Quotes #Anxious Quotes

“Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.”
“Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.”
“I believe in nature instead of God.”

Source : "Is there a God?". Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2000.
“Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.”
“Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.”
“You watched and you saw what happened and in the accumulation of episodes you saw the pattern: Daddy ruled the roost, called the shots, made the money, made the decisions, so you signed up on his side, and fifteen years later when the women's movement came along with its incendiary manifestos telling you to avoid marriage and motherhood, it was as if somebody put a match to a pile of dry kindling.”

Source : Anne Taylor Fleming (1995). “Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey”, Fawcett
“My grandfather taught me how important it is to have your eyes open,because you never know what's going to come your way.”
“I've been broke, and I've been in debt, and broke is better.”

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