Margaret Culkin Banning Quotes

#1. Regrets are as personal as fingerprints.

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#2. It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun.

Margaret Culkin Banning

#3. Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.

Margaret Culkin Banning

#4. You wouldn't be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume in your conduct?

Margaret Culkin Banning

#5. She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.

Margaret Culkin Banning

#6. I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is just an excuse for keeping things the way they are.

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#7. Sentences that begin with "all women" are never, never true.

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#8. Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard

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#9. I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the average person form an opinion of a girl's sense of values or even of her chastity except by the looks of her conduct?

Margaret Culkin Banning