My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
BEATRICE WOODHardships and handicaps can…stimulate our energy to survive them. You’ll find if you study the lives of people who’ve accomplished things, it’s often been done with the help of great willpower in overcoming this and that.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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Choosing to live in the timeless, I am now at the easiest and happiest time of my life.
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And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn’t mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.
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I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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I’m not too interested in books about India.
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You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex
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