Candida Quotes

“This not to say that the men and women associated with the Rat Bastard Protective Association had freed themselves from the powerful hold of established gender roles on their lives. Shirley Burman, Joan Brown, Jean Conner, Jay DeFeo, and Joanna McClure most frequently provided the practical component of the vision they shared with their spouses; that is, the women all worked for a living... As Càndida Smith observed, the 'contradictions of this imaginary society fell most acutely upon the women, for... they carried the burden of 'holding things together'.”

“Setting that little girl loose in her society would be like putting a fox in with the chickens. (Violet Strange's detective boss.)”

“Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.”

“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”

“Your weight is merely a symptom of your diet and lifestyle.”

“That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud”