Janet Flanner Quotes

Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting. - Janet Flanner

When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes. - Janet Flanner

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales. - Janet Flanner

The German passion for bureaucracy -- for written and signal forms . . . to move about, to work, to exist -- is like a steel pin pinning each French individual to a sheet of paper, the way an entomologist pins each specimen insect . . . - Janet Flanner

She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table. - Janet Flanner

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it. - Janet Flanner

I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks. - Janet Flanner

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time. - Janet Flanner

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented . . . - Janet Flanner

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