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Tallulah Bankhead: No man worth...

Tallulah Bankhead: No man worth...

No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the...

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Sarah Bernhardt: For the theatre...

Sarah Bernhardt: For the theatre...

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can...

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Joan Crawford: Love is fire....

Joan Crawford: Love is fire....

Love is fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never...

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Anne Bradstreet: And he...

Anne Bradstreet: And he...

And he that knowes the most, cloth still bemoan
He knows not all that here is to be...

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Anne Bradstreet: Thou ill-form,d offspring...

Anne Bradstreet: Thou ill-form,d offspring...

Thou ill-form,d offspring of my feeble brain . . .

Source: From the Author to her...

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Beth Henley: I find it...

Beth Henley: I find it...

I find it fascinating to think about what the world is going to be like when people won't talk...

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Lorraine Hansberry: There is always...

Lorraine Hansberry: There is always...

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned...

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Nathalie Sarraute: We're swallowed up...

Nathalie Sarraute: We're swallowed up...

We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.

Source: The...

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Ethel Watts Mumford: Said a Rooster,...

Ethel Watts Mumford: Said a Rooster,...

Said a Rooster, I'd have you all know
I am nearly the whole of the show;
Why, the Sun every morn
Gets up with...

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Elizabeth Bishop: It is like...

Elizabeth Bishop: It is like...

It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn from the cold hard mouth of...

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Eliza Cook: Though language forms...

Eliza Cook: Though language forms...

Though language forms the preacher,
'Tis good works make the man.


Source: Good...

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Gail Parent: Actually, I have...

Gail Parent: Actually, I have...

Actually, I have only two things to worry about now: afterlife and reincarnation.

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Sophie Tucker: Keep breathing....

Sophie Tucker: Keep breathing....

Keep breathing.

Source: Her reply, at the age of 80, when asked the secret of her...

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Ethel Merman: Always give them...

Ethel Merman: Always give them...

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.

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Lena Horne: It's ill-becoming for...

Lena Horne: It's ill-becoming for...

It's ill-becoming for an old broad to sing about how bad she wants it. But occasionally we...

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Pearl Bailey: No one can...

Pearl Bailey: No one can...

No one can figure out your worth but you.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Barbara Bush: Somewhere out in...

Barbara Bush: Somewhere out in...

Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White...

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Mary Todd Lincoln: My evil genius...

Mary Todd Lincoln: My evil genius...

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

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Sophia Loren: It's a mistake...

Sophia Loren: It's a mistake...

It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything...

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Sarah Bernhardt: The monster of...

Sarah Bernhardt: The monster of...

The monster of advertisement. . . is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It. . . gathers in, through its...

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