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Janet Flanner
The German passion...
The German passion for bureaucracy -- for written and signal forms . . . to move about, to work, to exist -- is like a...
I act as...
I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.
Source:...
Women have invented...
Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough...
I keep going...
I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.
Source: On her...
By jove, no...
By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer...
She was built...
She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.
The older women...
The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were...
Genius is immediate,...
Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.
Source: In The Wit & Wisdom of Women,...
The stench of...
The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of...
Isadore [Duncan], who...
Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a...
The German passion...
The German passion for bureaucracy -- for written and signal forms . . . to move about, to work, to exist -- is like a...
I act as...
I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.
Source:...
Women have invented...
Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough...
I keep going...
I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.
Source: On her...
By jove, no...
By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer...
She was built...
She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.
The older women...
The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were...
Genius is immediate,...
Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.
Source: In The Wit & Wisdom of Women,...
The stench of...
The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of...
Isadore [Duncan], who...
Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a...