She watched and taught the girls that sang at their embroidery frames while the great silk flowers grew from their needles. – Louise Jordan Miln, The Feast of Lanterns
From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them. – Paracelsus
It’s important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
A womans heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe. – George Eliot
