“ In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums. ”
She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.
~ Janet Flanner
History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it's being made.
She felt about a love set as a painter does about his masterpiece; each ace serve was a form of brushwork to her, and her fantastically accurate shot-placing was certainly a study in composition.
The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs but our mothers were Nightingales.