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Janet Erskine Stuart: All sorts of...

Janet Erskine Stuart: All sorts of...

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

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Susan Sontag: All. . ....

Susan Sontag: All. . ....

All. . . forms of consensus about great books and perennial problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually...

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Ella Fitzgerald: I stole everything...

Ella Fitzgerald: I stole everything...

I stole everything that I heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.

Source: In...

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Carol Moseley-Braun: All I really...

Carol Moseley-Braun: All I really...

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill...

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Coco Chanel: Those who create...

Coco Chanel: Those who create...

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are...

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Midge Decter: Women's Liberation calls...

Midge Decter: Women's Liberation calls...

Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is that it has made of sex an...

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Coco Chanel: There is time...

Coco Chanel: There is time...

There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.

Source: In...

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P D James: What the detective...

P D James: What the detective...

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

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Elizabeth Bishop: The iceberg cuts...

Elizabeth Bishop: The iceberg cuts...

The iceberg cuts its facets from within
Like jewelry from a grave.


Source: The...

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Andrea Dworkin: As long as...

Andrea Dworkin: As long as...

As long as there is rape. . . there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going...

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Renata Adler: It is always...

Renata Adler: It is always...

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own...

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Mae West: When it comes...

Mae West: When it comes...

When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of...

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Helene Deutsch: It is no...

Helene Deutsch: It is no...

It is no exaggeration to say that among all living creatures, only man, because of his prehensile appendages, is...

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Andrea Dworkin: Women are an...

Andrea Dworkin: Women are an...

Women are an enslaved population --the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced...

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Andrea Dworkin: We as women...

Andrea Dworkin: We as women...

We as women know that there are no disembodied processes; that all history originates in human flesh; that all...

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Corita Kent: Life is a...

Corita Kent: Life is a...

Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.

Source: In...

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Lotte Lehmann: For what mission...

Lotte Lehmann: For what mission...

For what mission can be greater than that of giving to the world hours of exaltation in which it may forget the misery...

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Debra Winger: I don't believe...

Debra Winger: I don't believe...

I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for...

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Debra Winger: I was never...

Debra Winger: I was never...

I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years,...

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Joanna Field: I used to...

Joanna Field: I used to...

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

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