Creative Quotations from . . .
Janet Flanner
(1892-1978) born on Mar 13
US journalist. "She wrote "Letter From Paris" for the New Yorker for Almost 50 Years. One of Few Women to Be Awarded French Legion of Honor."
 
   
F
She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.

R
"The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales."
A
"Genius is immediate, but talent takes time."
N
The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times.
K
"Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "On Elsa Maxwell; recalled on Flanner's death, 7 Nov 1978."
R: "In "Words of Women Quotations for Success," by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997."
A: "In "The Wit & Wisdom of Women," ed. Melissa Stein, 1993."
N: "In "Paris Journal 1944-1965," 1965."
K: ""Paris Was Yesterday," 1927."



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