The promise of change doesn't always mean something changes.
I thought it would be nice to marry Virgil [Thomson] to have a musical background, but I never got far with the project.
It is always assumed that Venice is the ideal place for a honeymoon. This is a grave error. To live in Venice or even to visit it means that you fall in love with the city itself. There is nothing left over in your heart for anyone else.
I look back on my life with great joy. I think it was a very successful life. I always did what I wanted and never cared what anyone thought. Women's lib? I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it.
I took advice from none but the best. I listened, how I listened! That's how I finally became my own expert.
[On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it.
Having plenty of time and all the museum's funds at my disposal, I put myself on a regime to buy one picture a day.
I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.
Why are there no "during" pictures?
I'm on probation, so I can't even pick my nose the right way.
Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive. It is the means by which we declare our faith in God and qualify ourselves to receive the powers of heaven. Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge and power and God’s unlimited wisdom and omnipotence.