Adela Rogers St. Johns Quotes

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Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness—happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

Woman's work as a listener is never done.... I thought I'd spent too much of my life listening for some damn man — for my father and now for my husband.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

If you have tenderness, nothing else matters. If you don't have tenderness, nothing else matters.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

It is only an error in judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to stick to it.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

God made man and then said I can do better than that and made woman.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

I think every woman's entitled to a middle husband she can forget.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

Adela Rogers St. Johns

Adela Rogers St. Johns

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Born: May 20, 1894

Died: August 10, 1988 (aged 94)

Bio: Adela Nora Rogers St. Johns was an American journalist, novelist, and screenwriter.

Known for:

A Free Soul (1931)
What Price Hollywood? (1932)
The Skyrocket (1926)
The Red Kimono (1925)
The Great Man's Lady (1942)

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