Dienstag, Mai 02, 2006
~Woman~
Being a woman is one of the most wonderful things in the World.
*wink*
"She was," he proclaimed, "so extraordinarily beautiful that I nearly laughed out loud. She... [was] famine, fire, destruction and plague...the only true begetter. Her breasts were apocalyptic, they would topple empires before they withered...her body was a miracle of construction...She was unquestionably gorgeous. She was lavish. She was a dark, unyielding largesse. She was, in short, too bloody much...Those huge violet blue eyes...had an odd glint...Aeons passed, civilizations came and went while these cosmic headlights examined my flawed personality. Every pockmark on my face became a crater of the moon." So Richard Burton described his first sight of a 19-year-old Elizabeth Taylor.
"Was this the face that launched a thousand ships
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?"
Helen is often called "the face that launched a thousand ships"
Clark Gable is quoted as having said, "The girl makes you think all the wrong thoughts," in reference to Sophia (Loren).
When she toured India in the '60s, more people came to see her(Jacqueline Kennedy) than came to see Queen Elizabeth.
