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Jane Austen: Nothing is more...

Jane Austen: Nothing is more...

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an...

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Marguerite Yourcenar: If I make...

Marguerite Yourcenar: If I make...

If I make it, I will carry a pencil instead of the ritual sword.

Source: On her...

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Barbara Bush: You don't just...

Barbara Bush: You don't just...

You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is...

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Elizabeth Kenny: As a girl...

Elizabeth Kenny: As a girl...

As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my...

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Margot Asquith: To marry a...

Margot Asquith: To marry a...

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had...

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Jessamyn West: Nothing is so...

Jessamyn West: Nothing is so...

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

Source: The Life I Really Lived,...

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Vicki Baum: You don't get...

Vicki Baum: You don't get...

You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: God answers sharp...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: God answers sharp...

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers,
And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,
A gauntlet...

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox: The man who...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: The man who...

The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and...

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Catherine Deneuve: Opportunities are often...

Catherine Deneuve: Opportunities are often...

Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.

Source:...

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Joan Baez: Hypothetical questions get...

Joan Baez: Hypothetical questions get...

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

Source: Daybreak, 1966.
-- Joan...

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Jacqueline Bisset: You need to...

Jacqueline Bisset: You need to...

You need to get in touch with your body ... do dance, movement, learn to be supple, or be someone who's coordinated,...

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Lillian Gish: What you get...

Lillian Gish: What you get...

What you get is a living -- what you give is a life.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold,...

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Shirley Temple Black: I stopped believing...

Shirley Temple Black: I stopped believing...

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for...

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Shirley Temple Black: Mr. President, I...

Shirley Temple Black: Mr. President, I...

Mr. President, I don't know why it took us 200 years for one of us to get the job [of...

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Helen Gahagan Douglas: Character isn't inherited....

Helen Gahagan Douglas: Character isn't inherited....

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by...

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Kathe Kollwitz: I do not...

Kathe Kollwitz: I do not...

I do not want to die . . . until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: Where I was...

Georgia O'Keeffe: Where I was...

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that...

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Diane Arbus: You see someone...

Diane Arbus: You see someone...

You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

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Diane Arbus: I really believe...

Diane Arbus: I really believe...

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

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