The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
Freya StarkThings good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.
Freya StarkThe language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange concept has grown around it: if something is to be sold, inaccuracy is not immoral. Hence the art of advertisement - untruthfulness combined with repetition.
Freya Stark