Confessions of a Middle-Aged Suburban Diva: Thank You...

... to whoever sent this card into Post Secret.

For it is my goal too.

great things someone else said

Hope in the face of difficulty, hope in the face of uncertainty. the audacity of hope: In the end, that is God's greatest gift to us, the bedrock of this nation, a belief in things not seen, a belief that there are better days ahead.

~ President Barack Obama

What I really wanted was to have a job like Darrin Stephens on 'Bewitched', where you could be creative all the time.
~ Edie Brickell

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork — reading, writing, thinking — can.
~ Helen Gurley Brown

If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
~ William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

Lipstick traces on cigarettes can get you in trouble or remind you of the wonders of the night before.
~ Bob Dylan

Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.
~ Emmylou Harris

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
~ Rudyard Kipling

I'm a writer. I don't cook and I don't clean.
~ Dorothy West

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
~ Dorothy Parker

Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I sign up.
~ Margaret Atwood

Music is the real place where democracy lives -- every note is equal.
~ Vince Gill at the 2008 Grammy Awards

What's the use of naturally curly hair if no one's jealous?
~ Frieda, from the Peanuts comic strip

What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person.
~ John Boorman

The waste basket is a writer's best friend.
~ Isaac Singer

If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door, greet him with, "Who could have done this? We have no enemies."
~ Phyllis Diller

Getting older, I think you just have to accept that we are all just big goobers.
~ Reese Witherspoon

Writing is the supreme solace.
~ Somerset Maugham

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1.13.2007

Thank You...

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