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Antique Dolls ... I used to construct elaborate stories when I was a kid – pretending that the dolls were families, and coming up with whole dramas around their lives... Not only are they worried about their antique porcelain dolls getting broken, but they are even worried about fingerprints....

Paper Dolls -- Endearing Childhood Treasures ... Strictly speaking, the term 'paper dolls' includes only dolls that have accompanying clothing or costumes, and the earliest such dolls were used in the fashion industries of France, Austria, Germany and England in the mid 1700s... These kinds of dolls were first manufactured in England and America in the early 1800s, and many beautifully crafted dolls were exported from Europe to America in the late 1800s... Although these dolls date only from the 1700s, paper figures (without accompanying clothing or costumes) have been in existence for thousands of years...

Dolls, Figurines, Foods, Friendships, Healing - Military Intelligence! ... And after so much heart break and agony from Iraq, and how we elders worry how these young soldiers will fare when they are back over here. And to see one example of what could well be, is to see these soldiers, American men and women, happily acting more as Peace Army Corp and being loved for it...

Buying New Andvintage Polly Pocket Dolls And Playsets ... But adults buy Polly Pocket dolls for different reasons. And if you are one of those who are surprised to hear that adults actually collect toys, then you really shouldn't be...

Tips To Buy And Sell Barbie Dolls Online ... It is not unnatural that the online sellers repent for not saving their Barbie Dolls when they come to know the big bucks behind pretty doll business...

Because the priest must have like every dog his day
Or keep us all awake with baying at the moon,
We and our dolls being but the world were best away.
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

... my aim is now, as it has been for the past ten years, to make myself a true woman, one worthy of the name, and one who will unshrinkingly follow the path which God marks out, one whose aim is to do all of the good she can in the world and not be one of the delicate little dolls or the silly fools who make up the bulk of American women, slaves to society and fashion.
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)

As they lean over the beans in their rented back room that
is full of beads and receipts and dolls and cloths,
tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes.
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)