... there is nothing more irritating to a feminist than the average "Woman's Page" of a newspaper, with its out-dated assumption t...hat all women have a common trade interest in the household arts, and a common leisure interest in clothes and the doings of "high society." Women's interests to-day are as wide as the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Put in hours and hours of planning, figure everything down to the last detail, then what? Burglar alarms start going off all over ...the place for no sensible reason. A gun fires of its own accord and a man is shot. And a broken-down old house no good for anything but chasing kids has to trip over us. Blind accidents. What can you do against blind accidents?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thrice happy book! thou wilt have one page, at least, within thy covers, which MALICE will not blacken, and which IGNORANCE cannot... misrepresent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My criticisms are always simple; they are limited to one word:MOmit! Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and eve...ry page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature rebels against this rule; the flesh is weak, and shrinks from the scissors; I groan in retrospect over the weak words and useless pages I have written; but the law is sound, and every book written without a superfluous page or word is a masterpiece. All the same, no one cares to apply so stern a law to another person. One has right to be severe only with oneself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets ...matters off to a spirited start.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Alvy Singer: I've gotta see a picture exactly from the start to finish, 'cause, 'cause I'm anal. Annie Hall: That's a polite ...word for what you are.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control o...ver what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »