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.
BEATRICE WOODWell, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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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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Choosing to live in the timeless, I am now at the easiest and happiest time of my life.
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
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I hang on to the statement of scientists that there is no time. Therefore, join me in telling everyone you are thirty-two. This allows me to go after young men and plan grabbing husbands from my girlfriends.
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Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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Celibacy is exhausting.
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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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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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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