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Ursula Parrott was an English writer born on March 26, 1900. Her works primarily focused on social realism, exploring the status and challenges of women in early 20th-century British society.

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“Men told Lucia I was lovely looking, but completely cold. Why cold? I let them kiss me when they must, in cabs, dancing in hot nightclubs, at parties. They were not real. Neither was the office. Clothes were real. I bought many clothes so that, when Peter called up, I could say “come over instantly” and I would be marvellously dressed. I dressed carefully, always, because I might meet some friend of Peter’s, who would go back to him and say, “I saw Patricia; she was looking beautiful.” Then he would call up sooner.”

Love Relationships Party Fashion Friends Clothes

Book:Ex-wife

Source: Ex-wife

“Don’t generalize from one example and an irrelevant one. You have a practically universal sex-appeal. As soon as you begin to be even a little interested in people, again, instead of just decorative but altogether unresponsive, you’ll have dozens of men asking to ‘love’ (her accent was derisive) you for a night or a month or two or even longer. I worry about that.”

Love Sex Advice Friends

Book:Ex-wife

Source: Ex-wife

“I hate him; I’m never going to see him again. I’m going to kiss so many other men I shan’t remember what he was like. He says I’m a slut; I’ll be a slut, but never with him, again. Lucia, why did he do this to me?”

Heartbreak Kiss

Book:Ex-wife

Source: Ex-wife

“We were just talking. Pretty soon it would be time to make up one’s face, and put on a velvet frock, and things would start happening fast again. It was not a bad life, while things happened fast. And they usually did.”

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Book:Ex-wife

Source: Ex-wife

“Families—strangers who knew one well when one was a child.”

Family Youth Family Relationships Families

Book:Ex-wife

Source: Ex-wife

“I felt cold and dry, like a Martini.”

Humor Alcohol Drinks Martinis

Book:Ex-wife

Source: Ex-wife

“Perhaps that was it—it did not matter why, really—we had to get on without Heaven as best we could.”

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Book:Ex-wife

Source: Ex-wife

“The only problem is whether one adds life to one's years or years to one's life.”

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Book:Ex-wife

Source: Ex-wife

“An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony.”

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Book:Ex-wife

Source: Ex-wife

“Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary.”

Mean Speech Civilized Etiquette

Book:Ex-wife

Source: Ex-wife

“Marriage is like war - an experience that no adventurous man would evade, and no sensible man repeat.”

Men War Marriage Repeats Sensible Adventurous

Author:Ursula Parrott

“Coolidge is the best living demonstration that, if you keep silent long enough, something fortunate may happen to you.”

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Author:Ursula Parrott

About the Author

Born: March 26, 1900
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 12

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