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.
BEATRICE WOODAnd I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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First of all, I’d like to say here the fact that I’m not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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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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Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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I’m not too interested in books about India.
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Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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Celibacy is exhausting.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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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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And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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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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I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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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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