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Geraldine Chaplin: When I'm depressed...

Geraldine Chaplin: When I'm depressed...

When I'm depressed and I feel low thinking that good movies are not made any more, then I put on his [Charlie Chaplin]...

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Sarah Louise Delany: Oh, Mama was...

Sarah Louise Delany: Oh, Mama was...

Oh, Mama was a smart woman. It takes a smart woman to fall in love with a good man.

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Elizabeth Gould Davis: The most wasteful...

Elizabeth Gould Davis: The most wasteful...

The most wasteful brain drain in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink.

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Rose Elizabeth Bird: The judiciary must...

Rose Elizabeth Bird: The judiciary must...

The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. [W]e are guardian of rights,...

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Suzanne K Langer: Every artistic form...

Suzanne K Langer: Every artistic form...

Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of...

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Susanna Moodie: What a wonderful...

Susanna Moodie: What a wonderful...

What a wonderful faculty is memory! --the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic...

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Marie Anne du Deffand: Ah! I shall...

Marie Anne du Deffand: Ah! I shall...

Ah! I shall repeat it endlessly, the only misfortune is to be born!

Source: In An...

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Sarah Winnemucca: The saddest day...

Sarah Winnemucca: The saddest day...

The saddest day hath gleams of light,
The darkest wave hath bright foam beneath it,
The twinkles o'er the...

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Marie Anne du Deffand: Do I believe...

Marie Anne du Deffand: Do I believe...

Do I believe in ghosts? No, but I'm afraid of them.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Marie Anne du Deffand: Women are never...

Marie Anne du Deffand: Women are never...

Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness.

Source:...

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Marie Anne du Deffand: Distance doesn't matter:...

Marie Anne du Deffand: Distance doesn't matter:...

Distance doesn't matter: it is only the first step that is difficult.

Source:...

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Tammy Faye Bakker: You can educate...

Tammy Faye Bakker: You can educate...

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

Source: In Observer...

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Etty Hillesum: Life cannot be...

Etty Hillesum: Life cannot be...

Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is...

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Doroth?e DeLuzy: I have only...

Doroth?e DeLuzy: I have only...

I have only to take up this or that to flood my soul with memories.

Source: In The...

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Nannie Burroughs: When the Negro...

Nannie Burroughs: When the Negro...

When the Negro learns what manner of man he is spiritually, he will wake up all over. He will stop playing white even...

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Mary Jean LeTendre: Let us never...

Mary Jean LeTendre: Let us never...

Let us never confuse stability with stagnation.

Source:
-- Mary Jean LeTendre,...

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Mary Ritter Beard: Action without study...

Mary Ritter Beard: Action without study...

Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.

Source: In The Forbes...

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Marie Anne du Deffand: I love nothing...

Marie Anne du Deffand: I love nothing...

I love nothing and that is the true cause of my ennui.

Source: Letter to Jean Le...

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Alice Paul: I never doubted...

Alice Paul: I never doubted...

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me...

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Han Suyin: Truth, like surgery,...

Han Suyin: Truth, like surgery,...

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

Source: A Many Spendored Thing.
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