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Whatever else we may say about sex, it is at least as much a social and psychological phenomenon as it is a biological one. — Lillian B. Rubin

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college. — Lillian Smith

Lillian Gish may be a charming person, but she is not Ophelia. She comes on stage as if she had been sent for to sew rings on the new curtains. — Mrs. Patrick Campbell

I can't remember a time when I wasn't acting, so I can't imagine what I would do if I stopped now. — Lillian Gish

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. — Lillian Hellman

My lord," she whispered, "have you gone mad?"
"Yes. Yes. — Lisa Kleypas

I could never be lonely without a husband, but without my trinkets, my golden gods, I could find abysmal gloom. — Lillian Russell

I'm good at embroidery. It's what I always wanted to do ... Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery. — Lillian Hellman

The convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money. — Lillian Hellman

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute. — Lillian Hellman

The structure of the family is not born in nature but in human design. What we can do, we can also undo. — Lillian B. Rubin

Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty. — Lillian Hellman

A room of one's own isn't nearly enough. A house, or, best, an island of one's own. — Lillian Hellman

My peer would have to be dark-haired and handsome, a wonderful dancer ... and he would never ask permission before he kissed me. -Lillian Bowman — Lisa Kleypas

We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks. — Lillian B. Rubin

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die. — Lillian Smith

Sometimes we choose a friend who mirrors our fantasies, dreams of a self we wish we could be. — Lillian B. Rubin

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits. — Lillian Hellman

Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. I have to - to balance the family ticket. — Lillian Gordy Carter

If there is any man in England who is more experienced than Lord St. Vincent at sneaking around for a tryst, I'd like to know who. — Lisa Kleypas

Writers talk too much. — Lillian Hellman

I love all my children, but some of them I don't like. — Lillian Gordy Carter

We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end. — Lillian Hellman

Everyone's weird, I'm just a bit bizarre. — Pennie Lillian

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth. — Lillian Hellman

To become successful, one must put themselves in the paths of giants! — Lillian Cauldwell

Write like the whole world's reading..."

Lillian White — Lillian White

Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It's just literally never an option! — Lillian R. Melendez

If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point. — Lillian Hellman

Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth? — Lillian Hellman

We live and we love the world, Lillian thinks, and we kid ourselves that the world loves us back. — Amy Bloom

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. — Lillian Smith

A writer without reviews is like racing car without an engine - shows lots of potential but it's never going anywhere.

Lillian White — Lillian White

Prostitutes have no heart; actors haven morals. — Lillian Lee

St. Bernard said, 'Every word one writes smites the Devil. — Lillian Stewart Carl

Sometimes a person has to accept who they are before they can share it with someone else. — Lillian Feisty

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you. — Lillian Hellman

Yet Lillian is all heart and love, but fearless in the face of foe. — Morrissey

Always have some project under way...an ongoing project that goes from day to day and thus makes each day a small unit of time. — Lillian Troll

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped. — Lillian Hellman

Sexual freedom is about choice. It's the freedom to say no as well as yes. — Lillian B. Rubin

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners. — Lillian Gish

Does he behave in rude or improper ways?"
"He's a Bowman. We don't know any better. — Lisa Kleypas

The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable. — Lillian Gish

Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them. — Lillian Hellman

The question in crisis or ordeal is not: Are you going to be an extremist? The question is: What kind of extremist are you going to be? — Lillian Smith

As long as you are curious, you will never be bored. — Lillian Gish

It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured. — Lillian Hellman

The Lord doesn't judge according to dress. If your heart is clean it is all He wants. — Lillian Elizabeth Roy

Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of my painting background. — Lillian Bassman

Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women — Lillian B. Rubin

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak. — Lillian Hellman

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. — Lillian Hellman

Callous greed grows pious very fast. — Lillian Hellman

Never get caught acting. — Lillian Gish

I like people to come back and tell me what I did wrong. That's the kindest thing you can do. — Lillian Gish

I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia. — Mark Twain

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible. — Lillian Hellman

You lose your manners when you are poor. — Lillian Hellman

I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago. — Lillian Hellman

So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first. — Lillian Russell

the psychopath will speak of himself in grandiose terms while blaming others and taking absolutely no responsibility for his actions. — Lillian Glass

I'm not a homosexual and I don't smoke pot, so what would I say? — Lillian Gordy Carter

Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right. — Fay Wray

No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes. — Lillian Hellman

My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much. — Lillian Hellman

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning. — Lillian Gish

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour. — Lillian Hellman

Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault? — Lillian Hellman

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did. — Lillian Hellman

Loving someone deeply brings you closer to God. It is a humble admission of weakness, through which God's strength is made perfect. — Lillian Katungwa

There is no normal. There is only undiagnosed. — Lillian Csernica

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it. — Lillian Hellman

Marriage ain't easy but nothing that's worth much ever is. — Lillian Gordy Carter

A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young. — Lillian Hellman

A community of seriously hip observers is a scary and depressing thing. — J.D. Salinger

I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Lillian, my sweet love ... you're safe now. I'll never let anything happen to you again. I swear it on my life. You're safe. — Lisa Kleypas

Everything went downhill after Lillian [Gish] left me. — D.W. Griffith

Good God-is there nothing you won't stoop to?"
"If there is," Lillian replied smartly, "I haven't discovered it yet. — Lisa Kleypas

Failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field. — Lillian Hellman

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. — Lillian Hellman

Her eyes are so wild and bright they almost look like stars. — Brenna Yovanoff

Some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity. — Lillian Hellman

Church is a school for sinners, not a club of saints. — Lillian Daniel

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday. — Lillian Gordy Carter

I am completely tied up with softness, fragility, and the problems of a feminine world. — Lillian Bassman

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt. — Lillian Hellman

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels. — Lillian Hellman

I'm no angel." - Lillian Hayes

"Who wants an angel anyway." - Nicholas Brace

Dangerous Ties by Debra Parmley — Debra Parmley

The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth. — Lillian Hellman

Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else. — Lillian Hellman

Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create. — Lillian Hellman

Maybe money is unreal for most of us, easier to give away than things we want. — Lillian Hellman

Gather up your loins, daughter. You named Lillian Florence Jones after my mother. A toughter lady never lived. Find your talent and drive it. — Toni Morrison

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons. — Lillian Gordy Carter

You lose your manners when you're poor. — Lillian Hellman

Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.' — Lillian Gordy Carter

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. — Lillian Hellman

Young man, if God had wanted you to see me that way, he would have put your eyes in your bellybutton. — Lillian Gish

I live in a room and I go to work and I play a game called getting through the day while you wait for the night. — Lillian Hellman