Dolls Quotes - Page 13

• [On the socialites in New York in the Nineties who devoted themselves to politics, charities, and other volunteer work:] I never knew but one woman who devoted her life exclusively to the social game. She ended her days arranging dinner parties with paper dolls, a breakdown pitiful to watch.

  Margaret Case Harriman

  New York, Party, Games

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• Growing up, I wasn't allowed dolls, and my brothers weren't allowed guns. I inherited my brothers' clothes. I was never dressed in pink, and they were never dressed in blue; there were none of those rules that people still bizarrely subscribe to.

  Natascha McElhone

  Brother, Growing Up, Gun

  "What I know about men". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2008.

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• I'd rather be known for my accomplishments, and for things that I really do take pride in, rather than known for this doll-like image I had when I was a child.

  Mara Wilson

  Children, Pride, Accomplishment

  "Mara Wilson On Child Stardom, Morons Wanting to 'Party With Matilda'". Interview with Karina Grudnikov, nyulocal.com. January 19, 2009.

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• It would have been very easy for me to put on a little tight skirt and go out and try what I always call the Barbie doll roles.

  Suzy Amis

  Barbie Dolls, Trying, Roles

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• You know it's a good show when you involve fire and dolls and unitards.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Fire, Shows, Knows

  "Joel McHale and Gillian Jacobs Talk COMMUNITY Season 3, the Hiatus, Possibility of Season 4 and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 14, 2012.

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• History
  Coming too close
  Is monstrous, like a doll
  That is alive and bigger than the child
  Who tries to hold it.

  Babette Deutsch

  Children, History, Trying

  Babette Deutsch (1963). “Collected Poems: 1919-1962”

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• I was always obsessed with being famous. I had Marilyn Monroe paper dolls as a child, and I was always obsessed with her. I've just been really driven in that direction, and none of my friends were. So, I don't know what put that bug in me at a young age.

  Holly Madison

  Children, Age, Paper

  "Interview: Oregon's own reality star Holly Madison talks about 'Dancing'". Interview with Jake Ten Pas, www.oregonlive.com. March 20, 2009.

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• Consciousness even in my sleep changes primary colors. The features of my face melt like a wax doll in the fire. And who can consent to see in the mirror the mere face of man?

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Sleep, Men, Fire

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• I am the living Barbie Doll, how are you?

  Jeffree Star

  Barbie Dolls, Barbie

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• A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school,preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not "studying a profession," for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Team, Fall, School

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.129, Penguin

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• I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as my mom's had before me, and her mom's had before her.

  Beth Ditto

  Mom, Baby, Toys

  "I'm 30 and feel under huge pressure to have kids. What should I do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2007.

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• Some of my favorite photos from the old days are of people who maybe didn't know how to smile. Maybe smiling in photos wasn't an accepted form of behavior back then. But the big eyes and the oversized dolls that people are carrying, and it's something about their hair - the anachronisms of these photos are really what creep me out.

  Ransom Riggs

  Eye, Hair, People

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• Because the priest must have like every dog his day
  Or keep us all awake with baying at the moon,
  We and our dolls being but the world were best away.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dog, Moon, World

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• Most of today's film actress are typical of a mass-production age: living dolls who look as if they came off an assembly line . . .

  Helen Lawrenson

  Age, Actresses, Typical

  Helen Lawrenson (1968). “Latins are Still Lousy Lovers”

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• ... while our men seem thoroughly abreast of the times on almost every other subject, when they strike the woman question they drop back into sixteenth century logic. They leave nothing to be desired generally in regard to gallantry and chivalry, but they actually do not seem sometimes to have outgrown that old contemporary of chivalry--the idea that women may stand on pedestals or live in doll houses,... but they must not furrow their brows with thought or attempt to help men tug at the great questions of the world.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Men, Ideas, House

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• Monroe, the consummate sexual doll, is empowered to act but afraid to act, perhaps because no amount of acting, however inspired,can convince the actor herself that her ideal female life is not a dreadful form of dying.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Acting, Dying, Female

  Andrea Dworkin (1983). “Right-wing women: the politics of domesticated females”

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• it
  was my first doll that water went
  into and water came out of much
  earlier it was the diaper I wore
  and the dirt thereof and my
  mother hating me for it

  Anne Sexton

  Mother, Hate, Water

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• I got my Equity card from an audition out of Backstage. We did 'Guys and Dolls' and 'Kismet.'

  John C. McGinley

  Guy, Cards, Auditions

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• Cinderella and the prince
  lived, they say, happily ever after,
  like two dolls in a museum case
  never bothered by diapers or dust,
  never arguing over the timing of an egg,
  never telling the same story twice.

  Anne Sexton

  Happiness, Marriage, Museums

  Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!

  Susan B. Anthony

  Marriage, Girl, Freedom

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• For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.

  Mark Twain

  Hunting, Clothes, Males

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.5091, Delphi Classics

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• When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Girl, Poverty, Married

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• As a model I had a lot of success when I was 17 and 18 years old. It was before social media, before the world was what the world is, but even then it was terrifying, to be 18 years old and people knowing who you are, and I was this personality who was completely devoid of who I actually was. It was almost like being a manufactured boy band. You're sort of like a wind up doll; they wind you up and put you on the runway or something like that.

  Karen Elson

  Boys, Media, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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