Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.
NUMBER:
5471
AUTHOR:
Wallis, Duchess of Windsor
QUOTATION:
I survived … by mastering my own emotions…. a kind of private arrangement within oneself—an understanding of the heart and mind—that one’s life and purposes are essentially good, and that nothing from outside must be allowed to impair that understanding…. I learned that one can live alone.
ATTRIBUTION:
On public criticism of her after Edward VIII’s abdication, quoted in Michael Bloch ed Wallis and Edward: Letters, 1931-37, Summit 86
