Rhoda Janzen quotes
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“Theoretically, we Mennonites do not even know what we look like, since a focus on our personal appearance is vainglorious. Our antipathy to vainglory explains the decision of many of us to wear those frumpy skirts and the little doilies on our heads, a decision we must have arrived at only by collectively determining not to notice what we had put on that morning.”
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“In my opinion, sexiness comes down to three things: chemistry, sense of humor, and treatment of waitstaff at restaurants.”
-- Rhoda JanzenSource : Rhoda Janzen (2011). “Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home”, p.158, Atlantic Books Ltd
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“Is it ever really a waste of time to love someone, truly and deeply, with everything you have?”
-- Rhoda JanzenSource : Rhoda Janzen (2011). “Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home”, p.217, Atlantic Books Ltd
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“In my opinion, sexiness comes down to three things: chemistry, sense of humor, and treatment of waitstaff at restaurants. If the sparks don’t fly from the beginning, they never will. If he doesn’t get your sense of humor from the first conversation, you’ll always secretly be looking for someone who does. And if a guy can’t see restaurant servers as real people, with needs and dreams and crappy jobs, then I don’t want to be with him, even if he just won the Pulitzer Prize.”
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Source : Alan Bennett (2016). “Keeping On Keeping On”, p.296, Profile Books
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