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Elizabeth II: It's all to...

Elizabeth II: It's all to...

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

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Toni Morrison: Bryn Mawr had...

Toni Morrison: Bryn Mawr had...

Bryn Mawr had done what a four-year dose of liberal education was designed to do: unfit her for eighty per cent of...

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Toni Morrison: I wrote my...

Toni Morrison: I wrote my...

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

Source:
-- Toni Morrison,...

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Hannah Arendt: To be sure,...

Hannah Arendt: To be sure,...

To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities. . . than a rigorously enforced divorce...

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Marita Bonner: What's the need...

Marita Bonner: What's the need...

What's the need of working if it doesn't get you anywhere? What's the use of boring around in the same hole like a...

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Margaret Walker: I want my...

Margaret Walker: I want my...

I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song -- the fusion of the...

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Margaret Walker: You is born...

Margaret Walker: You is born...

You is born lucky, and it's better to be born lucky than born rich, cause if you is lucky you can git rich, but if...

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Paule Marshall: Once a great...

Paule Marshall: Once a great...

Once a great wrong has been done, it never dies. People speak the words of peace, but their hearts do not forgive....

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Iris Murdoch: All artists dream...

Iris Murdoch: All artists dream...

All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to...

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Ariel Durant: One of the...

Ariel Durant: One of the...

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to...

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Eudora Welty: Writers and travelers...

Eudora Welty: Writers and travelers...

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.

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Anne Tyler: While armchair travelers...

Anne Tyler: While armchair travelers...

While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.

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Elizabeth Bowen: Fate is not...

Elizabeth Bowen: Fate is not...

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Source: The House in Paris, 1936
--...

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Jessamyn West: If I were...

Jessamyn West: If I were...

If I were to join a circle of any kind, it would be one that required its members to try something new at least once a...

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Jessamyn West: I have done...

Jessamyn West: I have done...

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to...

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Jane Austen: Everything nourishes what...

Jane Austen: Everything nourishes what...

Everything nourishes what is strong already.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Dinah Mulock Craik: There was never...

Dinah Mulock Craik: There was never...

There was never a night that had no morn.

Source: The Golden Gate, Mulock's Poems,...

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Dinah Mulock Craik: Oh my son's...

Dinah Mulock Craik: Oh my son's...

Oh my son's my son till he gets a wife,
But my daughter's my daughter all her life.


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Toni Morrison: Most of our...

Toni Morrison: Most of our...

Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That's where we live. And...

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Michelle Obama: It was one...

Michelle Obama: It was one...

It was one thing to get yourself out of a stuck place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the...

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