Christina Bartolomeo Quotes & Sayings

It's the quiet ones who suffer most. — Christina Bartolomeo

I could either wait it out or pack my bags, but I could't force a confrontation with a man who refused to be confronted. So I did what a lot of women do: I kept my head in the sand. And I waited for winter to be over. — Christina Bartolomeo

These displays made it clear that the truly dedicated homemaker matched her comforter to her pillow shams to her washcloths to her bedskirt to her toothbrush holder. — Christina Bartolomeo

Sometimes it's more terrible and more stupid to sit, paralyzed, as events slip past you. A certain kind of guardian angel must watch over fools as they rush in. — Christina Bartolomeo

you can be pinpricked to death,' said Marta. 'I think the Chinese have a torture along those lines. — Christina Bartolomeo

I couldn't tell if, as husbands went, Paul was unusual, but he seamed to need lots more care and feeding than I bargained on. If only he'd come with an instruction booklet, like our new steam iron did, or even with a little plastic stick with tips about watering and sunlight, like a florist azalea. — Christina Bartolomeo

The poet Swinburne said that spring begins 'blossom by blossom. — Christina Bartolomeo

Courage is not my leading virtue. I've always avoided change of any sort, operating on the principle of safety first. I married a "safe" man. I've made my living performing humdrum work, work that bored other people so much that they'd pay someone else to do it. — Christina Bartolomeo

Perhaps Anita Loos had been right when she wrote that family life was only fit for those who could stand it. — Christina Bartolomeo