And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron
I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador – Sigmund Freud
I didnt finish my dress until about three days before my wedding – I had the flu and was stitching it from my bed. And the tulle came back from India all brown. We had to wash it for hours, but that didnt dissuade me from wearing it. – Georgina Chapman
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on. – Jean Kerr, “Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall,” The Snake Has All the Lines, 1958
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the males superiority. – Simone de Beauvoir