Joan Frank Quotes

• Coffee: we can get it anywhere, and get as loaded as we like on it, until such teeth-chattering, eye-bulging, nonsense-gibbering time as we may be classified unable to operate heavy machinery.

  Joan Frank

  Coffee, Eye, Teeth

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• Lovers and even some family members may come and go but the friendships that take root abide. Sometimes the best of what is true survives as if it had an independent will: The coals of friendship keep themselves alive until something happens to rekindle them.

  Joan Frank

  Friendship, Independent, Roots

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• I'm told some people no longer bother to have friends at all - can't fit them in.

  Joan Frank

  Friends, People, Fit

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• Yes, letter writing is antiquated - though there remain a few renegades who still so treasure the luxury of contemplating their lives in letters that they would rather write than call.

  Joan Frank

  Writing, Luxury, Treasure

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• Public depictions of women still tend to remain rigid and narrow - about the size of a coffin, say.

  Joan Frank

  Women, Coffins, Size

  Joan Frank (1994). “Desperate Women Need to Talk to You”, p.51, Conari Press

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• I found myself face to face with a long line of people resembling extras off the set of Night of the Living Dead: shuffling along, pale and twitching, empty cups in hand -- murderous. Miserable. No matter that the air was rich with vapors of fresh-ground beans and warm muffins; no matter that the soft piped-in Vivaldi poured over us like steamed milk. These angry zombies were rushing to work, and their eyes flashed fair warning: Don't mess with us. We haven't had our coffee.

  Joan Frank

  Coffee, Eye, Night

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