Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
BARBARA MERTZI am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don’t know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don’t bother to become interesting.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family.” “Very boring, Emerson.
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Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.
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But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.
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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point
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Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.
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Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.
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