Norma Shearer (photo by George Hurrell/via magnum)

“A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself. An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.”
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Ramon Novarro & Norma Shearer in The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927, dir. Ernst Lubitsch)