Rachel

“Since 1960s pop art the art world has been happy for artists to use the lowbrow to add zest and authenticity to their works. But middlebrow has resonances of the suburban bourgeousie who might see art as aspirational by association.”
― Grayson Perry, Playing to the Gallery

“No woman really minds hearing of the past affairs of her lover, it is the future alone that has the power to terrify”
― Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love

“It was his misfortune,—and also his fault,—that he had submitted to be loved by a wild cat.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

“I have often noticed that when women look at themselves in every reflection, and take furtive peeps into their looking-glasses, it is hardly ever, as is generally supposed, from vanity, but much more often from a feeling that all is not quite as it should be”
― Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love