I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
BARBARA MERTZIn the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat.)
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?
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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle…. Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)
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Superstition has its practical uses.
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You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats.” “It is an engaging quality, Emerson.” “That depends,” said Emerson darkly, “on how he likes them.
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Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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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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Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses’s lap and began to purr. ‘The creature oozes like a furry slug,’ said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.
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When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females…and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions.
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A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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I knew the answer, and–of course–so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.
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Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
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