#avon

When we were first offered a book deal prior to Avon's, they were trying to get us to change it from the first-person story into a how-to book, and they were offering us some decent money. My agent told me; "you should really consider this". ↗

— Kenny Loggins

#avon #book #change #consider #deal

That's who he was—not who he is now—and it sounds like you need to decide if you can deal with what he used to do. ↗

— Georgia Cates

#addison-donavon #beauty-from-surrender #beauty-series #georgia-cates #laurelyn-prescott

Do you know, Mrs. Allan, I'm thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much." "True friendship is a very helpful thing indeed," said Mrs. Allan, "and we should have a very high ideal of it , and never sully it by any failure in truth and sincerity. I fear the name of friendship is often degraded to a kind of intimacy that had nothing of real friendship in it. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#beauty #friends #friendship #l-m-montgomery #thankfulness

I can't understand how she could have wanted to live back here, away from everything," said Jane. "Oh, I can easily understand that," said Anne thoughtfully. "I wouldn't want it myself for a steady thing because, although I love the fields and woods, I love people too... ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#fields #home #l-m-montgomery #people #woods

Ik voel me vandaag beroerd. Maar laat ons om ons heen zien. Sommige mensen worden reeds bij het begin van hun leven zwaar gestraft: zij worden als vrouw geboren. ↗

— Gerard Reve

#dutch #humor #ongeluk #vrouw #humor

China is going to be one of Avon's largest market opportunities. It has a large geographic expanse, with hundreds of thousands of women in small villages really striving to make an earnings opportunity for themselves. ↗

— Andrea Jung

#china #earnings #expanse #geographic #going

Avon is a unique place to work; we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company; 46 percent of our officers are women. ↗

— Andrea Jung

#avon #company #family-friendly #got #high-level

Avon invented the concept of direct marketing and direct selling beauty. And that's still very valid to us. We'll have a firm that will be around for another 114 years as strongly as it was the first 114. ↗

— Andrea Jung

#around #avon #beauty #concept #direct

...And every day in heaven will be more beautiful than the one before it Davy," assured Anne. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#beauty #heaven #l-m-montgomery #beauty

But I'm terrified of giving up my career only to have the whole thing backfire in my face. What if I move down there and it doesn't work out?" "What if you don't and you never know what might have been? Can you live with that? ↗

— Georgia Cates

#addison-donavon #beauty-from-surrender #georgia-cates #laurelyn-prescott #paige-beckett