“I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.”
— Janet Flanner
“The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs but our mothers were Nightingales.”
— Janet Flanner
“She felt about a love set as a painter does about his masterpiece; each ace serve was a form of brushwork to her, and her fantastically accurate shot-placing was certainly a study in composition.”
— Janet Flanner
“History looks queer when you’re standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it’s being made.”
— Janet Flanner
“In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.”
— Janet Flanner
“She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.”
— Janet Flanner