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Florence L. Barclay

  • We, who have had tender, perfect mothers, would like to make it law that the other kind should always be called 'she-parents,' or 'female progenitors,' or any other descriptive title, but not profane the sacred name of mother!

  • ... the worship of beauty is to me a religion. Nothing bad was ever truly beautiful; nothing good is ever really ugly.

  • ... she had learned ... the value of silences in an important conversation, and the art of not weakening a statement by a postscript.

  • She had once been described, by one who saw below the surface, as a perfectly beautiful woman in an absolutely plain shell.

Florence L. Barclay, English writer

(1862 - 1921)