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Jessie Willcox Smith
"To marry and have children is the ideal life for a woman. What career could ever be as fine? To give the world splendid men and women-isn't that the noblest thing a woman could possibly do?" --
Source : Catherine Connell Stryker, Jessie Willcox Smith, Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott, Violet Oakley (1976). “The Studios at Cogslea: Delaware Art Museum, February 20-March 28, 1976”
Jessie Willcox Smith
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“A smile flickered across Coral’s face. “Have you ever noticed that once you have had a taste of certain sweets—raspberry trifle is my own despair—it is quite impossible not to think, not to want, not to crave until you have taken another bite?†“Lord Swartingham is not a raspberry trifle.†“No, more of a dark chocolate mousse, I should think,†Coral murmured. “And,†Anna continued as if she hadn’t heard the interruption, “I don’t need another bite, uh,night of him.”
“If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.”
“Each time we had a visiting writer, I asked what she thought of women and humor. By the end of the year, I had perfected my question and asked Adrienne Rich why there was so little written about women and humor. She looked at me right in the eye and said, 'You write it.' I took that as an order.”
“My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.”
“Oil is also essential for military operations. No other substance, no other raw material, is so vital for the prosecution of warfare, than petroleum. And the United States being the world's only global power, is totally dependent on petroleum.”
Source : "The Permanent Energy Crisis". Interview with Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2006.
“Intentions often melt in the face of unexpected opportunity.”
“Another crazy day where you drink the night away and forget about everything.”
“The Italian government, a free French newspaper tartly observed, never finished a war on the same side it started on – unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice.”
