“I never yet touched a fig leaf that didn't turn into a price tag.”
Humboldt's Gift (1975), p. 159
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“I began to rationalize marrying Will[iam Houston Price]. 'He comes from a good family. A girl could do worse.' (As it turned out, I couldn't, but I didn't know that yet)”
Source: Tis Herself (2004), p.93, on her thinking, before marrying her second husband.
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