Maxine Quotes

• Nobody supports me at the expense of his own adventure. Then I get bitter: I am not loved enough to be supported. That I am not a burden has to compensate for the sad envy when I look at women loved enough to be supported. Even now China wraps double binds around my feet.

  Maxine

  Adventure, Feet, Envy

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• The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket.

  Maxine

  Buckets, Size, Trouble

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• Without imagination, you live in a small room with the windows closed. Imagination opens the windows and shows us landscapes, horizons that we would not otherwise perceive…I want education to empower people to see possibility.

  Maxine

  Small Rooms, People, Imagination

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• I do my housework in the nude. It gives me an incentive to clean the mirrors as quickly as possible.

  Maxine

  Mirrors, Giving, Incentives

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• Take every birthday with a grain of salt. This works much better if the salt accompanies a large margarita

  Maxine

  Grain Of Salt, Margarita, Accompany

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• The key to a nice-looking lawn is a good mower. I recommend one who is muscular and shirtless.

  Maxine

  Nice, Keys, Lawns

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• Love is like a roller coaster. When it's good, you don't want to stop and when it's not... you want to throw up.

  Maxine

  Love Is, Want, Roller Coaster

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• All I'm looking for is a guy who'll do what I want, when I want, for as long as I want, and then go away. Or wait nearby, like a Dust Buster, charged up and ready when needed.

  Maxine

  Dust, Long, Guy

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• Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and the old buzzard won't be hanging around, underfoot, all weekend.

  Maxine

  Weekend, Men, Teach A Man To Fish

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• To look at possibility is to be free.

  Maxine

  Looks, Possibility

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• My favorite birthday game is Pin the Cleanup on the guests.

  Maxine

  Games, Guests, My Favorite

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• Imagination is the capacity to think of things as if they could be otherwise.

  Maxine

  Thinking, Imagination, Capacity

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• After a good night sleep, I wake up the next day, and I say, 'Come on, Tea Party, let’s get it on.'

  Maxine

  Good Night, Party, Sleep

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• When you go to make a purchase, take a look at the product and ask yourself: 'am I being cheated?' If a product from a 'fast fashion' chain is falling apart before you've even bought it, it's not a deal. It's the fast-fashion company trying to get you to buy something that is quick on trend but slow on quality.

  Maxine

  Fashion, Fall, Trying

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• I’ll tell you the secret to good teaching: make possible an experience without predetermining what that experience will be.

  Maxine

  Teaching, Secret, Good Teaching

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• It must be that people who read go on more macrocosmic and microcosmic trips – biblical god trips, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Ulysses, Finnegan’s Wake trips. Non-readers, what do they get? (They get the munchies.)

  Maxine

  Book, Biblical, People

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