William Bolitho (William Bolitho Ryall) Quotes
A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color
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The more insight I get, the more scared I get of women in general.
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I was at our beautiful home in Martha's Vineyard, near Boston, sitting on the porch looking at the ocean when I got a phone called and was asked, 'Would I like to do 'CSI'?' A week later, I'm at a coroner's office in Las Vegas, participating in a quadruple autopsy.
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Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
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That's the one criteria I have - I can't do an impression of someone I don't like.
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Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.
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I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.
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I have no time for women who don't support other women. It's the ultimate compliment when a woman tells you that you look good.
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I love to dance, and sing - in the shower, not in public. I'm too old to go raving, but my fondest memories are of that kind of thing - dancing, with lots of people, outside if possible.
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Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
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We need to encourage young women to find what they love to do. That is a very valuable pursuit - more so than the pursuit of a boyfriend. When you have that core, you bring that core to every aspect of your life.
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My hope is that we will inspire more lesbians to get politically engaged. For too long, lesbian women have been left out of politics.
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When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that's when we'll have equal power.
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Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.
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Morocco is such a beautiful place. It's incredibly beautiful. And also it is captivating place because for a writer, you feel that you make impact. I mean, when I write something in the press, the day after in the fish market, people will be discussing it.
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I think that women are more sensitive to emotional infidelity than men. I think men are more scared of physical infidelity.
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Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.
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This is a culture filled with perfect images of women and perfect images of movie actresses, and most people can't live up to them.
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Women don't take care of themselves because they take care of everybody else.
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Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
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When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.
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A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color
