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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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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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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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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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Shirley Hazzard: Perhaps if we...

Shirley Hazzard: Perhaps if we...

Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.

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George Eliot: The intense happiness...

George Eliot: The intense happiness...

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and...

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Paule Marshall: My very first...

Paule Marshall: My very first...

My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her...

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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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Mary Renault: The perpetual stream...

Mary Renault: The perpetual stream...

The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over...

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George Sand: One approaches the...

George Sand: One approaches the...

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

Source:...

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Jane Harrison: To be meek,...

Jane Harrison: To be meek,...

To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be...

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Jessamyn West: To meet at...

Jessamyn West: To meet at...

To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are...

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Agatha Christie: I didn't want...

Agatha Christie: I didn't want...

I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing...

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Mary Martha Sherwood: The book of...

Mary Martha Sherwood: The book of...

The book of Nature, my dear Henry, is full of holy lessons, ever new and ever varied; and to learn to discover these...

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Margery Allingham: When the habitually...

Margery Allingham: When the habitually...

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the...

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Golda Meir: Old age is...

Golda Meir: Old age is...

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard there's nothing you can...

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Margaret Chase Smith: One of the...

Margaret Chase Smith: One of the...

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They...

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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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Nancy Astor: The first time...

Nancy Astor: The first time...

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.

Source: Lady...

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Gloria Naylor: One should be...

Gloria Naylor: One should be...

One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire...

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