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Georgia O'Keeffe: Most people in...

Georgia O'Keeffe: Most people in...

Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want...

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Berenice Abbott: Photography can never...

Berenice Abbott: Photography can never...

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be...

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Berenice Abbott: I am so...

Berenice Abbott: I am so...

I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute,...

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Debbi Fields: I had always...

Debbi Fields: I had always...

I had always been taught that life was the other way around -- that you had to make sure you got what was coming to...

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Mary Kay Ash: People fail forward...

Mary Kay Ash: People fail forward...

People fail forward to success.

Source: On People Management, 1984.
-- Mary Kay...

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Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Power is the...

Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Power is the...

Power is the ability to get things done.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Anita Roddick: I hope to...

Anita Roddick: I hope to...

I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs.

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Est?e Lauder: Look for a...

Est?e Lauder: Look for a...

Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.

Source: Advice on choosing a spouse, in New...

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Paula Nelson: Women's battle for...

Paula Nelson: Women's battle for...

Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still traditionally assigns to...

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Ilka Chase: When he said...

Ilka Chase: When he said...

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Like some small...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Like some small...

Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs
Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there
At this or that box,...

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Amy Lowell: Art is the...

Amy Lowell: Art is the...

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives...

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Rita Dove: Here's a riddle...

Rita Dove: Here's a riddle...

Here's a riddle for Our Age: when the sky's the limit, how can you tell you've gone too...

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Vita Sackville-West: It is necessary...

Vita Sackville-West: It is necessary...

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly...

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Lorraine Hansberry: [T]here is only...

Lorraine Hansberry: [T]here is only...

[T]here is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each of us with our own little picture -- in...

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Christina Rossetti: The downhill path...

Christina Rossetti: The downhill path...

The downhill path is easy, but there's no turning back.

Source: The Poetical Works...

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Lauren Bacall: I think your...

Lauren Bacall: I think your...

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

Source:...

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Sally Field: I never really...

Sally Field: I never really...

I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with...

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Maria Schell: I love the...

Maria Schell: I love the...

I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the...

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Maggie Smith: One went to...

Maggie Smith: One went to...

One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting.

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