There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other is the seed catalogues. – Hal Borland (1900–1978)
I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle – a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own – and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip. – Susan Orlean
Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you. – William Frederick Book
Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system. – John Conyers
Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I dont know about categorizing them in terms of class Im a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder. – Tom Hiddleston
