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Famous quotes containing the words black and/or madonna:

    “Never ‘eld with mournin’ meself. I always say, life’s black enough as it is without dressin’ in it, too.”
    —Philip Dunne (1908–1992)

    “In our minds lives the madonna image—the all-embracing, all- giving tranquil mother of a Raphael painting, one child at her breast, another at her feet; a woman fulfilled, one who asks nothing more than to nurture and nourish. This creature of fantasy, this myth, is the model—the unattainable ideal against which women measure, not only their performance, but their feelings about being mothers.”
    —Lillian Breslow Rubin (20th century)