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Margot Asquith: He has a...

Margot Asquith: He has a...

He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.

Source: Referring to Sir Stafford...

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Gwendolyn Bennett: Oh, stir the...

Gwendolyn Bennett: Oh, stir the...

Oh, stir the lucid waters of thy sleep
And coin for me a tale
Of happy loves and gems and joyous limbs
And...

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Alice Duer Miller: The innate tendency...

Alice Duer Miller: The innate tendency...

The innate tendency [of men] to appeal to force renders them particularly unfit for the task of government . . . Man's...

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Amy Lowell: Happiness, to some...

Amy Lowell: Happiness, to some...

Happiness, to some elation;
Is to others, mere stagnation.


Source: In The...

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Ntozake Shange: I am gonna...

Ntozake Shange: I am gonna...

I am gonna write poems til i die and when i have gotten outta this body i am gonna hang round in the wind and knock...

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Anna Letitia Barbauld: You speak of...

Anna Letitia Barbauld: You speak of...

You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already...

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Helen Hayes: Every human being...

Helen Hayes: Every human being...

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He was born with the tragedy that...

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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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Ava Gardner: After my screen...

Ava Gardner: After my screen...

After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled, She can't talk! She can't act! She's...

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Lynn Fontanne: Warm the pot...

Lynn Fontanne: Warm the pot...

Warm the pot first, please, then put two heaping teaspoonfuls in the pot no bags in boiling water, and when it's in,...

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Thelma Ritter: If there's anything...

Thelma Ritter: If there's anything...

If there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it.

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Loretta Swit: M*A*S*H offered real...

Loretta Swit: M*A*S*H offered real...

M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was...

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Eleonora Duse: The one happiness...

Eleonora Duse: The one happiness...

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in...

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Vita Sackville-West: There are no...

Vita Sackville-West: There are no...

There are no signposts in the sea.

Source: No Signposts in the Sea, 1961.
--...

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Nathalie Sarraute: Television has lifted...

Nathalie Sarraute: Television has lifted...

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major...

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Aphra Behn: Variety is the...

Aphra Behn: Variety is the...

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

Source: The Rover, Pt II. I
-- Aphra Behn, (Jul...

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Aphra Behn: Money speaks sense...

Aphra Behn: Money speaks sense...

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Source: The Rover,...

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Janet Erskine Stuart: In no order...

Janet Erskine Stuart: In no order...

In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life.

Source: In 2,715...

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Diana Ross: Instead of looking...

Diana Ross: Instead of looking...

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to...

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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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