Literature, Edith Hamilton

Great literature, past or present, is the expression of great knowledge of the human heart; great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

~ Edith Hamilton ~

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Vampires, Theda Bara

The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.

- Theda Bara, a.k.a. "The Vamp", attributed in Leta W. Clark, Women, Women, Women: Quips, Quotes, and Commentary (1977), p. 16

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Money, Aristotle Onassis

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

- Aristotle Onassis, quoted in Aristotle Onassis: A Biography (1977), by Nicholas Fraser

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