Joyce Adams

“Madame sensed me weakening. ‘One doesn’t have a need for beautiful lingerie, one has a desire for it!’ she declared, triumphantly.”
― Katrina Lawrence, Paris Dreaming

“Studying Liberty in the Louvre that day, I wondered if French women sensed a pressure to be both sexy and smart. Perhaps they felt just as Liberty might have: frustrated that she’d broken free of her corsets, only to find she couldn’t escape from society’s expectations that women should be, above all, seductive. Or did they simply accept that women were a package of contradictions, complicatedly wrapped up in layers of lace and feminine frills?”
― Katrina Lawrence, Paris Dreaming

“If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

“Lift every voice and sing.”
― James Weldon Johnson