"Talent is long patience."

-- Gustave Flaubert

#Writing Quotes #Long Quotes #Talent Quotes

“I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery.”
“The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature.”
“I dont really want to say need because to me--an aggressive, liberated woman--need sounds too pathetic. But maybe Im wrong. Maybe need and want sometimes go together. Maybe I do need and want a man.”
“If you're not a beautiful person, you can't do anything about it.”
“All I really want to do is just keep acting, and some of it will stink, and some of it will be really good, and maybe when I'm 85 and presenting an Oscar like Bette Davis did, I can look back and say, 'It was okay, I did all right.'”
“My studio is arranged so that I have a comfortable seating area for meeting with clients, an office area beyond that and a painting area, which includes room for art students to sit and watch as I work.”
“People in the U.S. are more cranked up on pharmaceutical drugs than any other culture in the world today. I want people using safer medicine. And that means plant medicine.”
“What is sanity, after all, except the control of madness?”

Source : Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). “Now in November”, p.95, Feminist Press at CUNY

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