"The older women were Sunbeams and I guess……" — Janet Flanner
"The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales."
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14 Quotes by Janet Flanner
Janet Flanner has 14 quotes on this site.
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By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it…
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Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to…
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In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.
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I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.
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I am invariably and have been since adolescence inimical to the Republican mind which shows at the most inflated size…
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The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking…
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When I hear a writer say that they ‘put in a call,’ I want to pull my hair out.
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She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the…
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Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.
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When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you…
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I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.
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She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.
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More Acceptance Quotes
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Confine yourself to the present.
— Marcus Aurelius
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort…
— Alan Ball
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
— Pierre Bayle
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
— Melody Beattie
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
— Josh Billings
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I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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