Mrs. Spencer distrusted letters on principle, because they always seemed to want to entangle her in so many small, disagreeable obligations--visits, or news of old friends she had conveniently forgotten, or family responsibilities that always had to be met quickly and without enjoyment.


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Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank.
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.
JOHN SHIRLEY
I daydream all the time, and I like that quality.
SHIRLEY HENDERSON
When I asked my mother why crowds shouted my name and said 'We love you,' she would dust it ...
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrus...
SHIRLEY HUFSTEDLER
Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell; All the other sounds we hear, ...
JAMES SHIRLEY
Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways ...
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.
JOHN SHIRLEY
I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore....
SHIRLEY MACLAINE
I've been blessed with three wonderful careers: motion pictures and television, wife, mother and...
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.
JOHN SHIRLEY
We've had so many lifetimes of different cultures and different religions and different points o...
SHIRLEY MACLAINE
I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and...
JOHN SHIRLEY
My role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover.
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
You're never too old to grow up.
SHIRLEY CONRAN
Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.
SHIRLEY HAZZARD
I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.
SHIRLEY CONRAN
Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.
SHIRLEY CONRAN
Waddya want me to do? through my sling shot at him?
SHIRLEY HUGHES
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's ...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close...
JOHN SHIRLEY
Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.
SHIRLEY MACLAINE
Beauty was darkness till she came.
Then paint her eyes, whose active light
Shall make the fo...
JAMES SHIRLEY
The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to bui...
SHIRLEY HUFSTEDLER
I am an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best ...
SHIRLEY MACLAINE
I think they're a little shocked at first. . . . Then they start laughing or grinning or shaking my ...
SHIRLEY MANSON
Sex is not the enemy . . . I won't feel guilty no matter what they're telling me,
SHIRLEY MANSON
I state for the record that I am PRO CHOICE. No government, no man, no neighbour of mine is going to...
SHIRLEY MANSON
The communication had gotten so bad that I don't think any of us know, even to this day, what was go...
SHIRLEY MANSON
I'm very expressive, but I'm also a very private person. It is so hard to be private in the ...
SHIRLEY EATON
Of course laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason t...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
America is composed of all kinds of people - part of the difficulty in our nation today is due to th...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chos...
SHIRLEY MANSON
If you have any opinions at all or if you're even remotely verbal then they're going to call...
SHIRLEY MANSON
Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.
SHIRLEY KNIGHT
I'd like to run away from you, but if you didn't come and find me, I would die...
SHIRLEY BASSEY
I'm a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same.
SHIRLEY BASSEY
No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.
SHIRLEY BASSEY
I love him because he is Welsh and stylish...and because he gave me these shoes.
SHIRLEY BASSEY
Who would have thought a little girl from Tiger Bay would one day become a Dame?
SHIRLEY BASSEY
We are exploring the sale of both assets. Whether [the Braves and Turner South] were going to be sol...
SHIRLEY POWELL
Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at th...
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
Conran's rule of housework: it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour
SHIRLEY CONRAN
I'm a fan of Jerome Kern and Gershwin. That's my kind of music.
SHIRLEY JONES