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«It's not that I don't want to be a beauty, that I don't yearn to be dripping with glamour. It's just that I can't see how any woman can find time to do to herself all the things that must apparently be done to make herself beautiful and, having once done them, how anyone without the strength of mind of a foreign missionary can keep up such a regime.»
Author: Cornelia Otis Skinner
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apparently, drip, dripped, dripping, missionary, regime, yearn
«To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.»
«Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.»
Author: Cornelia Otis Skinner
«Women have a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.»
«One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's confusions»
Author: Cornelia Otis Skinner
«One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.»
Author: Cornelia Otis Skinner
«That food has always been, and will continue to be, the basis for one of our greater snobbism does not explain the fact that the attitude toward the food choice of others is becoming more and more heatedly exclusive until it may well turn into one of those forms of bigotry against which gallant little committees are constantly planning campaigns in the cause of justice and decency.»
Author: Cornelia Otis Skinner
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campaigns, decency, exclusive, gallant, heatedly, well-turned
«It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.»
«I can't see how any woman can find time to do to herself all the things that must apparently be done to make herself beautiful and, having once done them, how anyone without the strength of mind of a foreign missionary can keep up such a regime.»
Author: Cornelia Otis Skinner
«[T]he food choice of others is becoming more and more heatedly exclusive until it may well turn into one of those forms of bigotry against which gallant little committees are constantly planning campaigns in the cause of justice and decency.»
Author: Cornelia Otis Skinner
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