Janet Flanner Quotes

I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.

Janet Flanner

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs but our mothers were Nightingales.

Janet Flanner

She felt about a love set as a painter does about his masterpiece; each ace serve was a form of brushwork to her, and her fantastically accurate shot-placing was certainly a study in composition.

Janet Flanner

History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it's being made.

Janet Flanner

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

Janet Flanner

She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.

Janet Flanner