I was in a convent for a year.
BEATRICE WOODMy life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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Hardships 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.
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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 don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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Celibacy is exhausting.
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There’s so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.
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And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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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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I’m not too interested in books about India.
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I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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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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And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
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And culture is – each of us – is like one pearl added to another to make a chain. We each contribute to the other. And that’s all right. But once you’re on your own, do that which comes from within. And I feel this very strongly.
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