Quotations About / On: HAIR

  • 41.
    Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair
    Spread out in fiery points
    Glowed into words, then would be savagely still.
    (T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), U.S.-born—British poet, critic. The Waste Land, "A Game of Chess.")
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  • 42.
    [President Ellen Wood Hall is] short, with short gray hair that is not in the least bit attractive, and wears godawful clothes.
    (Peggy Hite Self (b. c. 1921), U.S. college alumna. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A17 (December 16, 1992). A 1943 alumna of all-women Converse College (Spartanburg, S.C.), Self was criticizing the college's first woman president. She and another alumna, Harriet B. Wilder, complained to the college's governing board and declared that they would discontinue their $100 annual donations. Among the other criticisms made by President Hall's opponents were her hiring of an African American dean of students and the informal meeting of a college counselor with a group of lesbian students. Sally H. Coughman, president of the Alumnae Association, said: "She [Hall] is not the white-glove Southern lady that I think many, many of the older alums see themselves as and see Converse girls as being—which is absolutely not who those students are anymore." Katherine F. Reeves, chair of the Board of Trustees, lamented: "To have this happen at a women's college is really depressing." And President Hall observed: "Couched in all this is the idea that one isn't as feminine as one should be, and I think that's a way of trying to keep women from being as independent as they need to be to function in leadership positions." Soon after saying this, she resigned.)
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  • 43.
    Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
    And beauty draws us with a single hair.
    (Alexander Pope (1688-1744), British satirical poet. The Rape of the Lock, cto. 2, l. 27-8 (1714).)
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  • 44.
    I could replace
    God for awhile, that old ring of candles,
    that owl's wing brushing the dew
    off my grass hair.
    (Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "Earth Psalm.")
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  • 45.
    And our dreams,
    with what frivolity we have pared them
    like toenails, clipped them like ends of
    split hair.
    (Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "Hypocrite Women.")
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  • 46.
    She ran down the stair
    A twelve-year-old darling
    And laughing and calling
    She tossed her bright hair;
    (John Streeter Manifold (b. 1915), British poet. Fife Tune (l. 9-12). . . Norton Book of Light Verse, The. Russell Baker, ed. (1986) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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  • 47.
    I'm gonna wash that man right out of my hair.
    (Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960), U.S. songwriter. I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out Of My Hair (song), South Pacific (stage musical, 1949; film, 1958).)
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  • 48.
    I saw a crow by Red Rock
    standing on one leg
    It was the black of your hair
    The years are heavy
    (N. Scott Momaday (b. 1934), Native American poet. Earth and I Gave You Turquoise (l. 25-28). . . Carriers of the Dream Wheel; Contemporary Native American Poetry. Duane Niatum, ed. (1975) Harper & Row.)
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  • 49.
    Actors work and slave—and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.
    (Helen Hayes (1900-1993), U.S. actor. On Reflection, ch. 4 (1968). Remembering actor John Drew's search for a little girl who could play her younger self in a production of The Prodigal Husband. Hayes, at thirteen, was playing a ten-year-old, and the child's hair was required to be the same ash-blonde shade as hers.)
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  • 50.
    Moonlight becomes you,
    It goes with your hair.
    (Johnny Burke (1908-1984), U.S. songwriter. "Moonlight Becomes You," Road to Morocco, Paramount Music Corp. (1942). Music composed by James Van Heusen (1913-1990).)
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