.. its a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you dont need to have anything else; and if you dont have it, it doesnt much matter what else you have. – James Barrie
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary? – James Barrie
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it. – James Barrie
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you dont find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting. – James Barrie
I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing. – Anne Lamott
From very early on in my childhood – four, five years old – I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected – I was very tall and skinny, and I didnt look like anybody else, I didnt even look like any member of my family. – Patti Smith