When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God why was I here? what was my purpose? Surely, it wasn't ...just to win three gold medals. There has to be more to this life than that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Asked if American women would ever win full suffrage:] Assuredly. I firmly believed at one time that I should live to see that da...y. I have never for one moment lost faith. It will come but I shall not see it ... it is inevitable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Everything that was ever to happen to me in the future had its germ or impulse in the conditions of my life on Dover Street. My fr...iendships, my advantages and disadvantages, my gifts, my habits, my ambitions--these were the materials out of which I built my after life, in the open workshop of America. My days in the slums were pregnant with possibilities; it only needed the ripeness of events to make them fruit forth in realities. Steadily as I worked to win America, America advanced to lie at my feet. I was an heir, on Dover Street, awaiting maturity. I was a princess waiting to be led to the throne.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Behind the steering wheel The boy took out his own forehead.... His girlfriend's head was a green bag Of narcissus stems. "OK you win But meet me anyway at Cohen's Drug Store In 22 minutes."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to comm...and their respect, the result is an orderly happy household. If he is too tyrannical, they give notice; if he lacks authority, they become slovenly, impertinent, drunk and dishonest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »