"Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see."

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Source : "Head Over Heels for Manolo Blahnik" by Lisa Armstrong, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 23, 2010.

Manolo Blahnik

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“At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.”

Source : Jung Chang (2008). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.1, Simon and Schuster
“Value work. But not any kind of work. Ask yourself "Is the work vital, strengthening my own character, or inspiring others, or helping the world?".”
“Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.”
“In this league, experience means a lot.”
“Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.”
“One Whitman is miracle enough, and when he comes again it will be the end of the world.”
“The Kennedy assassination has demonstrated that most of the major events of world significance are masterfully planned and orchestrated by an elite coterie of enormously powerful people who are not of one nation, one ethnic grouping, or one over-ridingly important business group. They are a power unto themselves for whom those others work. Neither is this power elite of recent origin. Its roots go deep into the past.”
“Things do not get better by being left alone.”

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