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Tillie Olsen: I could not...

Tillie Olsen: I could not...

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special...

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Louisa May Alcott: Money is the...

Louisa May Alcott: Money is the...

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can...

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Gloria Naylor: One should be...

Gloria Naylor: One should be...

One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire...

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Edna O'Brien: Writers live in...

Edna O'Brien: Writers live in...

Writers live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Carson McCullers: There's nothing that...

Carson McCullers: There's nothing that...

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old...

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Golda Meir: I must govern...

Golda Meir: I must govern...

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Source: In L'Europeo by Oriana...

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Edith Clara Summerskill: Prize-fighting is still...

Edith Clara Summerskill: Prize-fighting is still...

Prize-fighting is still accepted as a display worthy of a civilized people despite the fact that all those connected...

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Elizabeth II: It is easy...

Elizabeth II: It is easy...

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular...

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Margot Asquith: No one ever...

Margot Asquith: No one ever...

No one ever pruned me. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days,...

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Margot Asquith: He has a...

Margot Asquith: He has a...

He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.

Source: Referring to Sir Stafford...

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Karen Horney: There is no...

Karen Horney: There is no...

There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.

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Catharine Esther Beecher: The delicate and...

Catharine Esther Beecher: The delicate and...

The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like...

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Elizabeth Gould Davis: Men insist that...

Elizabeth Gould Davis: Men insist that...

Men insist that they don't mind women succeeding so long as they retain their femininity. Yet the qualities that men...

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Margaret Walker: I want my...

Margaret Walker: I want my...

I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song -- the fusion of the...

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Life is obstinate...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Life is obstinate...

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

Source: Frankenstein,...

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Katharine Hepburn: It's life isn't...

Katharine Hepburn: It's life isn't...

It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them....

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Tallulah Bankhead: Nobody can be...

Tallulah Bankhead: Nobody can be...

Nobody can be exactly me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

Source: In...

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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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Debra Winger: I make decisions...

Debra Winger: I make decisions...

I make decisions for my life, not the other way around. Besides, when you have a kid, you must weigh everything...

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Joanne Woodward: Intensity is so...

Joanne Woodward: Intensity is so...

Intensity is so much more becoming in the young.

Source: In The Last Word - A...

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