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Maya Angelou: The thorn from...

Maya Angelou: The thorn from...

The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more...

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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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Liz Smith: No matter who...

Liz Smith: No matter who...

No matter who you are or what you plan to do in life, learn to type!

Source: In...

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Anne Frank: Think of all...

Anne Frank: Think of all...

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Source: Diary of a...

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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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Erma Bombeck: The suburbs were...

Erma Bombeck: The suburbs were...

The suburbs were discovered, quite by accident, one day in the early 1940's by a Welcome Wagon lady who was...

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Erma Bombeck: It is not...

Erma Bombeck: It is not...

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and...

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Nikki Giovanni: It is not...

Nikki Giovanni: It is not...

It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.

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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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Zora Neale Hurston: There is nothing...

Zora Neale Hurston: There is nothing...

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

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Harriet Monroe: . . ....

Harriet Monroe: . . ....

. . . poetry, 'The Cinderella of the Arts.'

Source: In Harriet Monroe, Famous...

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Vita Sackville-West: It is necessary...

Vita Sackville-West: It is necessary...

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly...

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Ethel Watts Mumford: There was a...

Ethel Watts Mumford: There was a...

There was a young person of Tottenhem,
Whose manners, good Lord! she'd forgotten 'em.


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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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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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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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Sarah Bernhardt: Life begets life....

Sarah Bernhardt: Life begets life....

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

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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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Jacqueline Bisset: You've got to...

Jacqueline Bisset: You've got to...

You've got to work on your voice, it's your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where...

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Gypsy Rose Lee: Anything worth doing...

Gypsy Rose Lee: Anything worth doing...

Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.

Source:
-- Gypsy Rose Lee,...

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