"One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time."

-- Nancy Astor

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“When I got to LA and was with the James Gang, I got the opportunity to write a lot, to play in front of large audiences, make some money.”
“When you believe in something, stand up for it, even if everyone is sitting.”
“On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper-menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature seems to have no hesitation in administering to her strong doses of pain, and she can do nothing but submit passively to the regimen prescribed. On the other hand, as regards sexual attraction, which is necessary for the act of impregnation, and as regards the erotic pleasures experienced during the act itself, the woman may be on an equal footing with the man.”
“You don't need the painful memories, because either you've resolved them. Denying always makes them want to come back. Denial is a mechanism that doesn't work. But allowing them to come back in little by little, those memories, you can begin to be quite comfortable with them, and it's even nice to have that as part of the map of your life.”
“When I was in Kansas City everything was going well for me. My marriage was good and I was very successful in baseball but something was missing in my life. That something was Christ. Every human being is born with a little defect in his heart. That defect is a hole in the heart that can only be filled by Jesus Christ.”
“In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.”

Source : Dispatch, in cipher, to the English Ambassador at the Hague, 31 January 1826, in Sir Harry Poland 'Mr Canning's Rhyming 'Dispatch' to Sir Charles Bagot' (1905)
“Air goes in and out of my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heart brain - and so I am”
“God does not show us the whole way but only the next step. His promise is, "I will counsel you with my eye upon you".”

Source : Ingrid Trobisch (1995). “The Confident Woman: Finding Quiet Strength in a Turbulent World”, Harper San Francisco

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