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Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Perhaps a reign of powerful women is necessary to make, or unmake when need be, powerful men. Women would not waste so readily and uselessly the lives they had such care and pain in bearing. Why should they submit to the massacre of the innocent, one generation after another... and allow them to be brought up as live-stock for the inevitable killing?

Natalie Clifford Barney

All expression, all art, is an indiscretion we commit against ourselves. This is not an 'impoverishment' but an increase in wealth, for it is in this way that we make the short hours of our lives live on beyond themselves.

Natalie Clifford Barney