#she

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading. ↗

— Vera Brittain

#believed #break #break up #court #divorced

My mother had been a country and western singer but when she moved out to Hollywood found it very difficult to get work so when I was born they put me into dance classes and singing classes as soon as I could walk actually. ↗

— Morgan Brittany

#been #born #classes #could #country

I was born in Boston, but then I went down to Virginia. We spent a little time in Maryland, and then were in Virginia by the time I was seven. What struck me the most was that my mother thought that she had gone to the middle of nowhere, and we would still drive four hours for her to get her hair cut in Washington, D.C. ↗

— Connie Britton

#boston #by the time #cut #down #drive

Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way. ↗

— Tom Brokaw

#draw #i #innocent #jailed #journalists

As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it. ↗

— Susan Faludi

#employment #established #fact #health #improves

I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind. ↗

— Charles Bronson

#anguish #course #detached #felt #happening

I really like birds. Everyone always wants me to say that I can't stand to go near them, just like they want Janet Leigh to confess that she can't bear to take a shower. Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#bear #birds #confess #disappoint #everyone

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#challenge #enjoying #even #experiencing #felt

A crazy man finishes in the cemetery. ↗

— Juan Manuel Fangio

#crazy #finishes #man

Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers. ↗

— James Broughton

#being #books #farther #hundred #nourished