"I should never have known how ladies and gentlemen really behaved, if it hadn't been for Colonel Pickering. He always showed what he thought and felt about me as if I were something better than a common flower girl. You see, apart from the things one can pick up, the difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she is treated. I shall always be a common flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me like a common flower girl, and always will. But I know that I shall always be a lady to Colonel Pickering, because he always treats me like a lady, and always will."Eliza Doolittle, My Fair Lady
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I love the idea behind this. Treating people as who they are: Gods in embryo. It smacks of truth doesn't it? -- her hair in this photo is divine.
That reminds me of a quote I heard from Audrey Hepburn, about how even when her face was smeared with dirt and they sprayed her with a hose to make Eliza Doolittle look like the common, haggard flower girl, she never forgot that she was a lady, and she always wore her Chanel perfume under Eliza's dingy clothes.
Interesting. Boy she's beautiful.
Anna-
You are Eliza Doolittle in my eyes...one very special "lady".
I want her hair!!! And dress, and figure, and coloring... oh bother, where will it end?
I agree with Norris lady, you're the modern day Doolittle!
Uh, off the subject, but I had a dream that I ran into you at our "gross"ery store here and you were 3 months farther along than me and NOT showing and I was a huge cow so I told you we can't be friends. How mean huh? Sorry, we can.
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