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She painted it because the farm was where she was from. You paint whatever comes from your spirit, and the spirit was her home, and I told her to paint it.


Martha Trask

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MARTHA BECK Life is too complicated not to be orderly.
MARTHA STEWART I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.
MARTHA STEWART Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which...
MARTHA GELLHORN The center of the stage is where I am.
MARTHA GRAHAM For the vast majority of world history, human life - both culture and biology - was shaped by scarci...
MARTHA BECK There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, th...
MARTHA SMITH You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.
MARTHA GRAHAM Not everyone is equally good-looking.
MARTHA BECK I suggest Substituting Inedible Nurturance, or SIN. Don't replace overeating with virtuous work ...
MARTHA BECK My daughter doesn't allow me to wear fur.
MARTHA STEWART Demanding the removal of Secretary Rumsfeld is not going to hasten the dismantling of the worldwide ...
MARTHA RAINVILLE The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this...
MARTHA GELLHORN It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be ...
MARTHA PLIMPTON I was a very good cook, and I knew I could build a business.
MARTHA STEWART I think it's also safe to say genre TV and movies were a big influence - the first stories I eve...
MARTHA WELLS I just personally decided I was going to be the first woman fighter pilot.
MARTHA MCSALLY Before I became a fighter pilot, everyone said that women didn't have the physical strength. Wel...
MARTHA MCSALLY Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means havi...
MARTHA BECK The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting.
MARTHA REEVES People love me everywhere. On an unofficial level, I'm an ambassador and a civil servant for Detroit...
MARTHA REEVES Dancing in the Streets.
MARTHA REEVES Him being hands-on helped us all prosper.
MARTHA REEVES Friends, there are many areas in which I need encouragement, but worrying is not one of them. I worr...
MARTHA BECK We go through a rigorous vetting process of products before they even get to Martha.
MARTHA STEWART Comparing and contrasting is a valuable human skill - and not just during high school English exams....
MARTHA BECK Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is...
MARTHA BECK We didn't wait for a holiday or a birthday or anything like that to get together. It was just the th...
MARTHA DAVIS If to dance is to dream, then you make dreams come true
MARTHA GRAHAM If I tell a man he needs to quit his soul-sucking job, he has to go home and fight with his wife or ...
MARTHA BECK The most beautiful destination I've been to was the Seychelles Islands, and the most culturally ...
MARTHA HUNT