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I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.


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LADY GREGORY It takes madness to find out madness.
LADY GREGORY Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good pla...
LADY GREGORY Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on ear...
LADY GREGORY What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may b...
LADY GREGORY To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of u...
LADY GREGORY My husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went through, to be two mon...
LADY GREGORY You can't comfort the afflicted without afflicting the comfortable.
LADY DIANA The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do is destroyed, laid waste or ...
LADY KASLUCK Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very mi...
LADY GREGORY Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
LADY BLOOMFIELD Men are four: He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool--shun him; He who kno...
LADY BURTON The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyra...
LADY GREGORY I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Cool...
LADY GREGORY There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing ...
LADY GREGORY There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better...
LADY GREGORY Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its wor...
LADY GREGORY It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I ...
LADY GREGORY It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very...
LADY GREGORY I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself...
LADY GREGORY What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the co...
LADY GREGORY I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
LADY ASTOR The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do it is destroyed, laid waste ...
LADY HASLUCK Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery...
LADY GREGORY The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in G...
LADY GREGORY You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what ...
LADY MORGAN In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is...
LADY GREGORY