Alice Duer Miller - quotes
When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.
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 Alice Duer Miller (28 July 1874 - 22 August 1942) was an American writer and poet. Miller was born in New York, from a wealthy family. At the time of her entrance in the society her family lost its fortune during a bank crisis. She entered the Barnard College in 1895 studying mathematics and astronomy. She paid for her studies selling novels and short essays. Miller graduated in June 1899 and shortly after married Henry Wise Miller (October 1899) and left with him to Costa Rica. The economical success of her husband permitted her to dedicate entirely to writing. She returned to the United States in 1903. Miller wrote mainly light fiction, ... |
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A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
