“I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.”
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It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.
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An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.
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The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.
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Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.
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