Christina Bartolomeo Quotes

#1. I could either wait it out or pack my bags, but I could't force a confrontation with a man who refused to be confronted. So I did what a lot of women do: I kept my head in the sand. And I waited for winter to be over.

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#2. Courage is not my leading virtue. I've always avoided change of any sort, operating on the principle of safety first. I married a "safe" man. I've made my living performing humdrum work, work that bored other people so much that they'd pay someone else to do it.

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#3. Sometimes it's more terrible and more stupid to sit, paralyzed, as events slip past you. A certain kind of guardian angel must watch over fools as they rush in.

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#4. Perhaps Anita Loos had been right when she wrote that family life was only fit for those who could stand it.

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#5. The poet Swinburne said that spring begins 'blossom by blossom.

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#6. I couldn't tell if, as husbands went, Paul was unusual, but he seamed to need lots more care and feeding than I bargained on. If only he'd come with an instruction booklet, like our new steam iron did, or even with a little plastic stick with tips about watering and sunlight, like a florist azalea.

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#7. It's the quiet ones who suffer most.

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#8. you can be pinpricked to death,' said Marta. 'I think the Chinese have a torture along those lines.

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#9. These displays made it clear that the truly dedicated homemaker matched her comforter to her pillow shams to her washcloths to her bedskirt to her toothbrush holder.

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