When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase. – Bernard Berenson
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. – Bernard Berenson
I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it. – Bernard Berenson
Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her? – Bernard Berenson
My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness werent created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969. – Camille Paglia