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Harriet Van Horne: Cooking is like...

Harriet Van Horne: Cooking is like...

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

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Peggy Noonan: Read good, big...

Peggy Noonan: Read good, big...

Read good, big important things.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Carolyn Heilbrun: . . ....

Carolyn Heilbrun: . . ....

. . . a relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest...

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Gail Sheehy: If we don't...

Gail Sheehy: If we don't...

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

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Ann Landers: Rose-colored glasses are...

Ann Landers: Rose-colored glasses are...

Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in...

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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Taught from infancy...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Taught from infancy...

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt...

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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: The beginning is...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: The beginning is...

The beginning is always today.

Source: From Journey in Word, ed. Cyndi Craven; an...

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Germaine Greer: Human beings have...

Germaine Greer: Human beings have...

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called...

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Marian Wright Edelman: Service to others...

Marian Wright Edelman: Service to others...

Service to others is the rent you pay for living on this planet.

Source: In Words...

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Florida Scott-Maxwell: Life does not...

Florida Scott-Maxwell: Life does not...

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys...

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Anne Frank: The best remedy...

Anne Frank: The best remedy...

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone...

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Harriet Ann Jacobs: My master had...

Harriet Ann Jacobs: My master had...

My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.

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Alice James: I make it...

Alice James: I make it...

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty...

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Ernestine L Rose: Slavery and freedom...

Ernestine L Rose: Slavery and freedom...

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.

Source: Speech, 14 May 14 1863, at a...

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Gloria Steinem: . . ....

Gloria Steinem: . . ....

. . . as for logic, it's in the eye of the logician.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Maya Angelou: There is no...

Maya Angelou: There is no...

There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.

Source: From a...

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Anita Brookner: You have no...

Anita Brookner: You have no...

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how...

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Harriet Van Horne: The time of...

Harriet Van Horne: The time of...

The time of the rack and the screws is come. Summer television has set in with its usual severity. And the small...

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Sarah Ban Breathnach: Grace is available...

Sarah Ban Breathnach: Grace is available...

Grace is available for each of us every day -- our spiritual daily bread -- but we've got to remember to ask for it...

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Belle Livingstone: I looked always...

Belle Livingstone: I looked always...

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see...

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