I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can't do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house. — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue. — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
“A conviction, unformulated but strong, rose to the working level of her mind - that painting did something more important for Nicholas than the… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
Mountains had taken the place of religion, had satisfied her religious sense, her need for adoration and worship as no service in any Cathedral,… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
Americans ... attach such a fantastic importance to their baths and plumbing and gadgets of all sorts. They talk as if people could hardly… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
In Europe, a product must be good, or it will not sell in competition with other products; with you, it is enough to say… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
America ... holds up its way of life as the ideal for every nation, and seeks to impose its own standards of living -… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
the essence of vulgarity seemed to lie in the pretence at being or the attempt to be, something that one really was not, with… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
In any relationship we feel an unconscious need to create, as it were, a new picture, a new edition of ourselves to present to… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
there is that wish, in the name of democracy, to level down, because high cultural standards are despised and rejected, and even feared, in… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can't do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house. — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
The full life depends, not on the range of experience but on the intensity of the interest, the emotion involved, and on its being… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
