Janet Flanner

The German passion...

The German passion...

The German passion for bureaucracy -- for written and signal forms . . . to move about, to work, to exist -- is like a...

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I act as...

I act as...

I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.

Source:...

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Women have invented...

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...

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I keep going...

I keep going...

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

Source: On her...

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By jove, no...

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...

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She was built...

She was built...

She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.

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The older women...

The older women...

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were...

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Genius is immediate,...

Genius is immediate,...

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

Source: In The Wit & Wisdom of Women,...

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The stench of...

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...

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Isadore [Duncan], who...

Isadore [Duncan], who...

Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a...

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