“You know, I would date, if I could find a man worth shaving my legs for. (Grace)”
Source: Fantasy Lover
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Sherrilyn Kenyon 752
Novelist 1965Related quotes
“It's not a date. I bought my own drink and I didn't shave my legs.”
Source: Fly Away
"A NOTE TO THOSE GROWNUPS WHO MIGHT READ THIS BOOK TO CHILDREN", as translated by Antonio T. de Nicolas (1985), p. xv.
Platero and I (1917)
Context: Island of grace, of freshness and of joy, Golden Age of children; always I could find you in my life, a sea of mourning; let your breeze lend me its lyre high and sometimes senseless like the trill of the lark in the white sun of morning.
I have never written nor will I ever write anything for children, because I believe the child can read the books that grownups read, with some few exceptions that come to everyone's mind. There are of course exceptions too for men and for women.
“I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.”
As reported by Ralph Waldo Emerson in Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1884) Vol. 1, Pt. 4.
Of this comment Perry Miller states "the fact is that at Emerson's table she was speaking the truth." "I find no intellect comparable to my own" in American Heritage magazine, Vol. 8, Issue 2 (February 1957) http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1957/2/1957_2_22.shtml.
from a long unpublished notebook of Berthe Morisot, 1890; as cited in Berthe Morisot, Jean-Dominique Rey; translation in English, Flammarion, S.A. (ISBN: 978-2-08-020345-8), Paris, 2010, 2016, p. 14
1881 - 1895
from a letter to John Oliver la Gorce, the Geographic's assistant editor (1923)
The London Literary Gazette (10th January 1835) Versions from the German (Second Series.) 'Pauline's Price'— Goethe.
Translations, From the German