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My super’s apartment was barely big enough to be alone with your thoughts.
“Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials.”
― Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work
― Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work
“This is what most girls are taught—that we should be slender and small. We should not take up space. We should be seen and not heard, and if we are seen, we should be pleasing to men, acceptable to society. And most women know this, that we are supposed to disappear, but it’s something that needs to be said, loudly, over and over again, so that we can resist surrendering to what is expected of us.”
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
“Sarah Vine, writing in the Daily Mail, admitted a different view of the duchess, who had set up a stall next to the main wedding marquee promoting her range of teas: ‘The woman is utterly incorrigible. And yet. There is something about her indefatigable, indestructible nature that I can’t help but admire. Something in her propensity for pratfalls of her own making that makes her so much more human than other royals.’ Vine likened her to ‘a human Labrador: clumsy, over-excitable, greedy, prone to causing breakages with her constantly wagging tail – but ultimately impossible to remain angry with for all that long’.”
― Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York
― Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York
“failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“The Newsnight programme ‘Prince Andrew & the Epstein Scandal’ was shown on the BBC on 16 November. The press reaction was instantaneous and unanimous. The Washington Post called it ‘a car crash’, while the New York Times reported that ‘experts on the royal family have described the interview as the biggest public relations debacle for the British royal family since the turbulent aftermath of the death of Princess Diana in a car crash in 1997.’ ‘I expected a train wreck,’ tweeted Charlie Proctor, editor of the Royal Central website. ‘That was a plane crashing into an oil tanker, causing a tsunami, triggering a nuclear explosion level bad.”
― Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York
― Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York
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