#ladders

I don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn't pay anything, and that sort of thing. ↗

— George Woodcock

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I don't know why people think I'm polished - I often leave the house with buttons missing and ladders in my tights. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

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