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Adela Rogers St. Johns
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“I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.”
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“After all, God made man and then said I can do better than that and made woman.”
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“I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.”
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“If you have tenderness, nothing else matters. If you don't have tenderness, nothing else matters.”
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“... it is only an error in judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to stick to it.”
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“A great many of us have confused change with progress.”
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“Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness — happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.”
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“The motion picture is the people's Art ...”
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“... death is a door life opens ...”
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“Woman's work as a listener is never done. ... I thought I'd spent too much of my life listening for some damn man — for my father and now for my husband.”
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“There is so little difference between husbands; you might as well keep the first.”
Adela Rogers St. Johns, U.S. journalist, screenwriter, novelist
(1894 - 1988)
Full name: Adela Nora Rogers St. Johns.