| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 11091 |
| QUOTATION: | Hats have never at all been one of the vexing problems of my life, but, indifferent as I am, these render me speechless. I should think a well-taught and tasteful American milliner would go mad in England, and eventually hang herself with bolts of green and scarlet ribbon—the favorite colour combination in Liverpool. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Willa Cather (1876–1947), U.S. novelist. Willa Cather in Europe, ch. 1 (1956).
Written on July 2, 1902. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Cather Collection. |
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