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Jessye Norman: I am grateful...

Jessye Norman: I am grateful...

I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.

Source: c. 1981; in...

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Sara Teasdale: I have no...

Sara Teasdale: I have no...

I have no riches but my thoughts,
Yet these are wealth enough for me.


Source:...

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Sara Teasdale: It is my...

Sara Teasdale: It is my...

It is my heart that makes my songs, not I.

Source: What Do I Care?, Flame and...

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Nikki Giovanni: It's not a...

Nikki Giovanni: It's not a...

It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a...

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Terry McMillan: Can't nothin make...

Terry McMillan: Can't nothin make...

Can't nothin make your life work if you ain't the architect.

Source: In Famous...

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Emily Dickinson: Find ecstasy in...

Emily Dickinson: Find ecstasy in...

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Source: From Journey...

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Alice Duer Miller: The innate tendency...

Alice Duer Miller: The innate tendency...

The innate tendency [of men] to appeal to force renders them particularly unfit for the task of government . . . Man's...

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Marlo Thomas: Never face facts;...

Marlo Thomas: Never face facts;...

Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning.

Source: From an...

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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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Deborah Kerr: Do you think...

Deborah Kerr: Do you think...

Do you think it will ever take the place of night baseball?

Source: In An Affair to...

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Maria Schell: If there were...

Maria Schell: If there were...

If there were one city I should pick to live in, it would be New York. It is a city where I walk down the street and...

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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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Lynda Barry: Love is an...

Lynda Barry: Love is an...

Love is an exploding cigar which we willingly smoke.

Source: Big Ideas, 1983.
--...

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Bernice Fitz-Gibbon: Creativity varies inversely...

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon: Creativity varies inversely...

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

Source:...

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Debbi Fields: Good enough never...

Debbi Fields: Good enough never...

Good enough never is has become the motto of this company.

Source: In Words of...

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Jinger Heath: Don't do anything...

Jinger Heath: Don't do anything...

Don't do anything that someone else can do for you because there are only so many things that only you can...

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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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Rita Rudner: My husband and...

Rita Rudner: My husband and...

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our...

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Nina Simone: Jazz is not...

Nina Simone: Jazz is not...

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new inventive phrases we...

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Gail Parent: She knew what...

Gail Parent: She knew what...

She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

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