"I was always pretending to be someone else… historical characters, all those I invented for myself…I act even to this day…It's the old imagination working, a kind of make believe."

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“The Menace…in movie language, and especially among women, means a heart-throb, a lover, someone with wide shoulders and no hips.”

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"Always make those above you feel comfortably superior."

— Robert Greene (American author)

Literature1959–1978

#creativity

": I do not believe that the heart is turned from the Creator by enjoying his works. Of what avail is the sweet breath of the rose, the morning song of the lark ? The pleasure they impart is not matter…"

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Literature1802–1838

#happiness

"Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says…"

— Andrea Dworkin

Literature1946–2005

#faith

"If you can capture a woman's imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly."

— Kathleen Tessaro

Literature1965

#love