#polly

They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so that when I bump into kids on the street they'd say 'I wish my Mom were like you.' ↗

— Charlotte Rae

#cool #i #i wish #into #kids

Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction. ↗

— Richard Savage

#fiction #much #part #polly #sex

Once I saw Graham - wholly unconscious of her proximity - push her with his restless foot. She receded an inch or two. A minute after one little hand stole out from beneath her face, to which it had been pressed, and softly caressed the heedless foot. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#graham #polly #unrequited-love #villette #love

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#genetic #hopeless #i #mother #pollyanna