Notable Quotes From Notable Women Essay, Research Paper

notable quotes from notable women

“She sat enthroned on a window-seat, her gorgeous coat spread out around her like the background of a painting, her head tilted sideways – and without any visible effort whatever made a dozen blase? young collegians her slaves. Her first faint lazy smile from the doorway had caught them, and the tentacles of her beauty and personality held them fast.”

Katharine Brush’s Glitter

“So we came to the Ritz hotel and the Ritz Hotel was devine. Because when a girl can sit in a delightful bar and have delicious champagne cocktails and look at all the important French people in Paris, I think it is devine.”

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos

“In spring the garden urns, casually filled with wind-blown plants, were as gay as ever. Violets came and daffodils. But the stillness and brightness of the day were as strange as the tumult and chaos of night, with the trees standing there, and the flowers standing there, looking before them, looking up, yet beholding nothing, eyeless, and so terrible.”

To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf

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Stenn, David, Clara Bow: Runnin’ Wild. New York: Doubleday, 1988.

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Blum, Stella, Everyday Fashions of the Twenties. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1981.