Polly Adler Quotes

• Your heart often knows things before your mind does.

  Polly Adler

  Life, Heart, Mind

  Polly Adler (1953). “A House is Not a Home”, p.348, Univ of Massachusetts Press

  45 Copy quote

• The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes and jewels; the women who marry to get out of a tiresome job, or to get away from disagreeable relatives, or to avoid being called an old maid -- these are whores in everything but name. The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth.

  Polly Adler

  Girl, Jobs, Husband

  17 Copy quote

• It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.

  Polly Adler

  Writing, College, Degrees

  Polly Adler (1953). “A House is Not a Home”, p.374, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician -- these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.

  Polly Adler

  Father, Real, Cities

  Polly Adler (1953). “A House is Not a Home”, p.9, Univ of Massachusetts Press

  7 Copy quote

• A house is not a home.

  Polly Adler

  Home, House

  Title of book (1954)

  8 Copy quote

• I am one of those people who can't help getting a kick out of life - even when it's a kick in the teeth.

  Polly Adler

  People, Teeth, Helping

  Polly Adler (1953). “A House is Not a Home”, p.31, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth.

  Polly Adler

  Girl, Money, Men

  Polly Adler (1953). “A House is Not a Home”, p.337, Univ of Massachusetts Press

  6 Copy quote

• I couldn't live my reputation down - all right then, I'd live up to it.

  Polly Adler

  Reputation

  4 Copy quote

• My home is in whatever town I'm booked.

  Polly Adler

  Women, Home, Towns

  Polly Adler (1953). “A House is Not a Home”, p.304, Univ of Massachusetts Press

  4 Copy quote

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