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"I know of nothing more significant than the awakening of men and women throughout our country to the desire to improve their houses. Call it what you will - awakening, development, American Renaissance - it is a most startling and promising condition of affairs."
"It is not chic to be too chic."
"It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand."
"a woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance."
"I am going in now for interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d'art and giving advice regarding the decoration of their houses to wealthy persons who do not have the time, inclination, nor culture to do such work for themselves. It is nothing new. Women have done the same thing before."
"don't make each room a different color in a small apartment or you'll make yourself nervous."
"the smallest part is worthy of the whole."
"You will soon find that your joy in your home is growing, and that you have a source of happiness within yourself that you had not suspected."
"I was not ugly. I might never be anything for men to lose their heads about, but I need never again be ugly. This knowledge was like a song within me. Suddenly it all came together. If you were healthy, fit, and well-dressed, you could be attractive."
"Never, under any circumstance, do I touch soup, as I do not believe in building a meal on a lake."
"I opened the doors and windows of America, and let the air and sunshine in."
"I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint."
"No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake."
"No one chair should be isolated."
"This is the age of the apartment. Not only in the great cities, but in the smaller centers of civilization the apartment has come to stay. ... A decade ago the apartment was considered a sorry makeshift in America, though it has been successful abroad for more years than you would believe."
"To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar."
"You can't take it with you. There are no pockets in a shroud."