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Purple Quotes

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens epigraph (1983)

Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.

Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.253, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Purple lipstick? Naw, that looks stupid on all girls!

"ASAP Rocky’s Misguided Beauty Advice, Rapper Says Dark Skin Girls Shouldn’t Wear Red Lipstick" by Julee Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2013.

Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?

St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.399, Jazzybee Verlag

When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple.

Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.21, Booklassic

When I am old, I shall wear purple.

"Older and wiser: Carol Ann Duffy introduces poems of ageing". www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2010.