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Tallulah Bankhead: I thought I...

Tallulah Bankhead: I thought I...

I thought I told you to wait in the car.

Source: On seeing a former lover after an...

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Lily Tomlin: Reality is nothing...

Lily Tomlin: Reality is nothing...

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Source: In Pearls of Wisdom, ed. J. Agel...

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Lily Tomlin: When we talk...

Lily Tomlin: When we talk...

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.

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Joan Crawford: Love is fire....

Joan Crawford: Love is fire....

Love is fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never...

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Louise Erdrich: They were so...

Louise Erdrich: They were so...

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were;...

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Emily Dickinson: Nature is what...

Emily Dickinson: Nature is what...

Nature is what we know -
Yet have not art to say -
So impotent our wisdom is
To her...

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Diane Wakoski: Poems reveal secrets...

Diane Wakoski: Poems reveal secrets...

Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets...

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Lynda Barry: If it is...

Lynda Barry: If it is...

If it is your time love will track you down like a cruise missile. If you say No! I don't want it right now, that's...

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Coco Chanel: Youth is something...

Coco Chanel: Youth is something...

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago, no one mentioned it.

Source: quoted...

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Louise Nevelson: A woman may...

Louise Nevelson: A woman may...

A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that...

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Jinger Heath: Don't do anything...

Jinger Heath: Don't do anything...

Don't do anything that someone else can do for you because there are only so many things that only you can...

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Rosabeth Moss Kanter: To stay ahead,...

Rosabeth Moss Kanter: To stay ahead,...

To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.

Source:
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Helena Rubinstein: Men are just...

Helena Rubinstein: Men are just...

Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.

Source: In The Last Word...

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Amy Lowell: All books are...

Amy Lowell: All books are...

All books are either dreams or swords,
You can cut, or you can drug, with words.


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Alice Meynell: The sense of...

Alice Meynell: The sense of...

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of...

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Catherine the Great: I praise loudly,...

Catherine the Great: I praise loudly,...

I praise loudly, I blame softly

Source: Letter, 23 Aug 1794.
-- Catherine the...

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Sophie Tucker: Gradually, at the...

Sophie Tucker: Gradually, at the...

Gradually, at the concerts, I began to hear calls for 'the fat girl' . . . . Then I would jump up for the piano stool,...

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Ethel Merman: Always give them...

Ethel Merman: Always give them...

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.

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Mary Antin: It is not...

Mary Antin: It is not...

It is not that I belong to the past, but the past that belongs to me.

Source: The...

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Oprah Winfrey: I think education...

Oprah Winfrey: I think education...

I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the...

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