Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
BEATRICE WOODAnd 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.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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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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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, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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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 then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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Celibacy is exhausting.
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I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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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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Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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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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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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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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