I was in a convent for a year.
BEATRICE WOODWell, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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Celibacy is exhausting.
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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 happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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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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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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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 then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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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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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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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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Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
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I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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