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Marie Laurencin.
Hers was an evil-sounding chuckle that Anna loved. The sort of chortle Dorothy might have heard shortly before all hell broke loose in the land of Oz
Dorothy scratched her dark head, yawning wide, and white feathers floated out of her hair.
Madeline Reynolds
Dorothy asked timidly: "Did his wife say anything?
"She sent her love to you."
Nora said: "Stop being nasty.
I'd been caught up in some wild cyclone, like Dorothy throw into Oz, with not a good witch in sight to save me.
I am the Wizard of Oz of housewives (in that I am both "Great and Terrible" and because I sometimes hide behind the curtains
The Wizard of Oz." "No, no, no," said Sophie. She quickly
You don't know Dorothy. The more she gets, the more she wants. That's the way it is with you people,
MR. GEORGE MOTHER MARGARET
My great-great-great-grandmother
Elizabeth Spencer.
She is an attractive, robust, fleshy, large-headed woman several years younger than Laura (it seems that every one, suddenly, is at least slightly younger than she).
spectacle of Dorothy Thompson at Madison Square Garden - tall, fair, blue-eyed, and laughing in her evening gown at twenty-two thousand "little men" - was not a thing to be forgotten.
A pair of ruby red slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz have been stolen. The thief is described as being armed and fabulous.
She has been bewitched by a wicked sorceress, and will not regain her beauty until she is my wife.'
'Does she say so? Well if you believe that you may drink cold water and think it bacon'.
And the winner of the drawing that night was an eleven-year-old black girl named Dorothy Daffodil-7 Garland.
Dorothy Hamill was my big idol as a kid. She'd won the Olympics in 1976. She was America's sweetheart with her personality, her talent, her haircut.
And then I should get no brains," said the Scarecrow. "And I should get no courage," said the Cowardly Lion. "And I should get no heart," said the Tin Woodman. "And I should never get back to Kansas," said Dorothy.
Hurricane Ginger." "I'll outlast that wimpy storm by a lifetime.
The loveliest fairy in the world; and her name is Mrs Do as you would bed one by.
Mrs. Earwig (pronounced Ar-wige, at least by Mrs. Earwig) believed in shiny wands, and magical amulets and mystic runes and the power of the stars, while Granny Weatherwax in cups of tea, dry biscuits, washing every morning in cold water and, well ... mostly she believed in Granny Weatherwax.
Good God. She was Wellington with eyelashes.
Marilyn is a kind of ultimate. She is uniquely feminine. Everything she does is different, strange, and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso. She makes a man proud to be a man.
She watches the people through the sooted panes. They walk slower than they do when she reports to work and when she leaves work, and differently still from weekend strolling. They are the tin men and rag dolls who wake after hours in the toy store.
Grandmother. The true power behind the power.
Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart.
Elisa Albert in a nutshell: funny, self-aware, and genuinely fearless that she might be a lunatic, or a genius, or both.
I'm going to say my name is Dorothy Sherman and I'm telling it like it is. I'm going to say my friends call me Dot, and I prefer my enemies not to call me at all.
The alien girl - she called herself Dorothy - was by virtue of her survival elevated to living sainthood. The dog was merely annoying.
Dolly was the exclamation point in my life. She made me feel things: adoration, anger, frustration. She was always in love and it made her glow.
That Mrs. Wiggins! Why, she's as like my sister Eva as two peas.
Jane Austen Emma
Don't you mean, witch?
Have some bread and butter. The bread
and butter is for Gwendolen. Gwendolen is devoted to bread and
butter.
Is it a toy?" asked Button-Bright softly.
"No, dear," answered Dorothy; "it's better than that. It's the fairy dwelling of a fairy prince.
And I think, Lily Calloway is very, very magical.
Shirley! Don't call me Shirley!
(Who Did No Harm to No Man all the Dais of Her Life. Reader, Can You Say Lykewise?).
She was a pixie, a fairy, full of imagination and in another world.
How shallow the words are, really - She is a witch. One might as well say, She is a mother, thinks Iris; that about covers the same terrain, doesn't it?
We don't need to play her witch's games. They always want to get you and your little dog, too." "I knew I never should have let you watch The Wizard of Oz." "Toto didn't deserve that kind of trauma. He was so tiny.
Who is Katharine Hepburn? It took me a long time to create that creature.
This must be what Dorothy felt like, I think. Maybe. If Dorothy was six scared teenagers and Oz was hell.
Jessica, who loves stories,
My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.
Eleanor-wait-I love you.
Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she was ...
She's the Indian who lives in my attic.
Katherine -I wondered if this was how Dorothy felt when she woke up in Oz with all the little people squawking ding dong, the witch is dead.
Even with eyes protected by the green spectacles, Dorothy and her friends were at first dazzled by the brilliancy of the wonderful City.
Get lost, Dorothy." "It's the thing we don't expect, Billina, that usually happens," observed the girl, thoughtfully.
Lily Calloway ... all this time, your superpower has been loving me.
Took out Skinny Minnie, Long Tall Sally, and Short Fat Fanny, but I'm kinda fonda Wanda.
But the banging of the door as punctuation caused Tiffany to think and she thought suddenly, I want to do it my way. Not how the other witches think it should be done. I can't be Granny Weatherwax for them. I can only be me, Tiffany Aching.
She can throw a whirling dervish out of whirl.
She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite!
Zhadi. Of admirers and foes, she had plenty. They said she
Where there is a woman there is magic.
She shuffled us out like two jokers in her cards reminding us to go to Auntie's house before dark, and telling us again she loved us.
The cave of Ozma has been discovered, and she is to come back and rule our Oz, and the idiotic Scarecrow can go stuff himself. Hah!Good one: a Scarecrow stuffing himself.
She smells like angels ought to smell, the perfect woman ... the Goddess. Goldie. She says her name is Goldie.
We're off to see the Wizard
Ding dong, the witch was dead" murmured Merlin as Gwen headed down the path towards the lake. She turned around and smiled "you're not the wizard of OZ Merlin, you don't get to make that call" she replied icily before diving into the cool crisp water.
What power that girl wielded, though there was nothing striking or unusual about her - unless one considered her long braid and her common sense!
And Belle? She was an odd girl who liked to read.
When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.
Roberta Marieschi
She's the original good time who was had by all.
Blonde Queenie, the most beautiful girl ever to don witches' robes, is standing in a silk slip, supervising the mending of a dress on a dressmaker's dummy. Jacob is thunderstruck.
She was a do-gooder,
Hermione Granger, I'm being bossed around by Hermione Granger.
She was the sort of girl called "bonny" - not beautiful, but lively and nicely made, with something about her that took the eye.
Mary Poppins is magical and fun.
Tetchily. She was fetching Daphne from Heathrow later; at least
Penny was a very pretty, witty and brave girl, as bold as a Marine platoon storming Iwo Jima.
Tiffany thought of the little spot in the woods where Granny Weatherwax lay. Remembered.
And knew that You had been right. Granny Weatherwax was indeed here. And there. She was, in fact, and always would be, everywhere.
She caught the Magic 8 Ball,
She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.
I will be forever grateful to Dora Brooking, for not only spotting my light bulb but also helping me turn up the wattage.
She was a woman of reserve.
And all the stories had, somewhere, the witch. The wicked old witch.
And Tiffany had thought: Where's the evidence?
I tend not to reread books, because there's always something new to discover, but Dorothy Sayers is a comfort grab for me - there's no mood so bleak or cold so bad that Lord Peter and Bunter can't make it right.
Anne of Windy Poplars
A girl who could send tear-stained telegrams.
Mr. Laurence. I have got a letter for the lady.
She was definitely the sort of girl who puts her hands over a husband's eyes, as he is crawling in to breakfast with a morning head, and says Guess who!
She was a genius, my mother.
Esther Williams? Wet, she's a star. Dry, she ain't.
She is a figure of legend and fairy tale, one to be taken seriously, or she might knock you off your feet with a quick whirl of the staff she carries everywhere.
Aunt May, my sweet Aunt May, who taught me how to knit, who bought me a piece of candy every time we went to the store, jabbed a cocktail fork at my eye.
The picturesque doctor's daughter, Miss Manette.
Shirley Temple opens doors for Shirley Temple Black.
... There was something regal about her. She carried herself like she was wearing pink moire. And that powerless complexion glowed. Watching her, it came to me that she must have some Yankee strength that didn't need frippery.
She was a tornado in a skirt.
A lot of my love of literature comes from Oz and Alice.
Oh, Len, isn't she a darling? Just because she saw how our Bandboxful of furniture would rattle about in that big house like a peanut in a cocoanut shell, to lend us all hers! She is a darling.
gin daisy, which
I thought about the cast of The Wizard of Oz on the yellow brick road and wondered which character I was. Perhaps the Tin Man, in search of a red, pulsating heart. Or at least someone to give it to.
Only Granny Weatherwax really knew Granny Weatherwax.