But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
BEATRICE WOODI’m not too interested in books about India.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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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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Choosing to live in the timeless, I am now at the easiest and happiest time of my life.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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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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Celibacy is exhausting.
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The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
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But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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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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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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