"Demonstrate talent, said Grandmother often to me, and……" — Martine Leavitt

"Demonstrate talent, said Grandmother often to me, and you will still be loved by a husband when beauty has faded."

— Martine Leavitt

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16 Quotes by Martine Leavitt

Martine Leavitt has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

These are the best reasons to do anything in life. People who say things like this are the kind of…
If untimely death came only those who deserved that fate, Keturah, where would choice be? No one would do good…
I have observed that you treat a man as an old garment to be taken apart and stitched again. Perhaps…
Living to an extraordinary age, she mourned them all equally as she buried her husband and, one by one, her…
And so he did his endless work,' I continued quietly, 'without feeling, without pity, without rest, for to open his…
...the girl longed for a love that could not be ended by death. From the time she was young, she…
Tell me what it is like to die," I answered. He dismounted from his horse, looking at me strangely the…
Each man, when he dies, sees the landscape of his own soul.
Had I truly thought I would not die when he kissed me? But I did. For a moment the breath…
It is life that hurts you not death.
When it is winter and we must walk in the blizzard snow do not our fingers and toes whisper death…
His [Death] voice is cold at first, John. It seems unfeeling. But if you listen without fear, you find that…

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More Beauty Quotes

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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