1.14.2008
Adela Rogers St. Johns Quotes
"There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.”
"Roscoe was a very FAT man."
"The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.”
"I think every woman's entitled to a middle husband she can forget.”
"I wish women would stand together and shackle the men who want to move us backwards."
"I can see Mr. Hearst shooting an Enemy-maybe even in cold blood. Everybody could shoot someone at sometime for something. But poison a guest at his own birthday table in a toast-NO" (Note: This defense of her boss Hearst is rather odd, as NO ONE ever accused him, nor did he ever defend himself, of poisoning Tom Ince...what the hell did SHE know?)
"Roscoe was a very FAT man."
"The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.”
"I think every woman's entitled to a middle husband she can forget.”
"I wish women would stand together and shackle the men who want to move us backwards."
"I can see Mr. Hearst shooting an Enemy-maybe even in cold blood. Everybody could shoot someone at sometime for something. But poison a guest at his own birthday table in a toast-NO" (Note: This defense of her boss Hearst is rather odd, as NO ONE ever accused him, nor did he ever defend himself, of poisoning Tom Ince...what the hell did SHE know?)
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