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Phyllis, then seventeen, had grown into a lovely girl, although she was still in school uniform. Thus, Hera made it known that her beautiful daughter`s virginity was once more for sale & she had set the asking price at twenty thousand dollars. She would use the proceeds from the sale to clear her debts, & the surplus, she would give to Vicky in compensation for the three thousand dollars she had paid four years earlier to preserve Phyllis` virginity.[MMT] ↗

— Nicholas Chong

#beauty

Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all. ↗

— Rube Goldberg

#diet #had #i #just #last

Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#because #ended #fascinating #fellow #fiction

Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience. ↗

— Harry Golden

#currency #earned #every #experience #literary

We made history when President Obama appointed Sonia Sotomayor, a proud Latina, the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice. And as the President likes to say, 'Every single one of them wasn't just the best Latino for the job, but the best person for the job.' ↗

— Charlie Gonzalez

#best #court #every #first #hispanic

Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary. ↗

— John Hawley

#beautifully #chapel #gas #got #had

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#committed #eye #fade #faint #followed

How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the burdens and share the plight of his people. Maturity is sensitivity to human suffering. ↗

— Julius Gordon

#because #brethren #burdens #grown #his

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#dough #ideas #like #made #pizza

Six months ago, I traveled to India to see firsthand what the prime minister of that country calls a national shame. It is the systematic, widespread, shocking elimination of India's baby girls. Some 50,000 female fetuses are aborted every month in India. ↗

— Elizabeth Vargas

#baby #calls #country #elimination #every