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Dinah Shore: The best money...

Dinah Shore: The best money...

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything...

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Christina Aguilera: Right now I'm...

Christina Aguilera: Right now I'm...

Right now I'm pretty single . . . . My career is my boyfriend.

Source: Interview...

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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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Millicent Fenwick: The only people...

Millicent Fenwick: The only people...

The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about...

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Pat Nixon: I have sacrificed...

Pat Nixon: I have sacrificed...

I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious in order to advance the political career of my...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: Man forgives women...

Minna Thomas Antrim: Man forgives women...

Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him.

Source: Naked Truth and...

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Ernestine L Rose: She had her...

Ernestine L Rose: She had her...

She had her reward! -- that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious --...

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Rosa Parks: I was determined...

Rosa Parks: I was determined...

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what...

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Olympia Brown: The Old Testament...

Olympia Brown: The Old Testament...

The Old Testament teems with prophecies of the Messiah, but nowhere is it intimated that that Messiah is to stand as a...

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Helen Keller: As selfishness and...

Helen Keller: As selfishness and...

As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the...

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Dorothy Parker: I had been...

Dorothy Parker: I had been...

I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to...

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Marie de Sevigne: . . .the...

Marie de Sevigne: . . .the...

. . .the most astonishing, the most surprising, the most marvelous, the most miraculous. . . the greatest, the least,...

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Marie de Sevigne: . . ....

Marie de Sevigne: . . ....

. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire,...

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Maya Angelou: Here on the...

Maya Angelou: Here on the...

Here on the pulse of this new day,
You may have the grace to look up and out
And into your sister's eyes,...

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Anita Brookner: You have no...

Anita Brookner: You have no...

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how...

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Laura Ingalls Wilder: All those golden...

Laura Ingalls Wilder: All those golden...

All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings...

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Judith Martin: The invention of...

Judith Martin: The invention of...

The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late...

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Dorothea Brande: The Wright brothers...

Dorothea Brande: The Wright brothers...

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.

Source: In The...

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Harriet Ann Jacobs: My master had...

Harriet Ann Jacobs: My master had...

My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.

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Phyllis Battelle: The general rule...

Phyllis Battelle: The general rule...

The general rule is that people who enjoy life also enjoy marriage.

Source: Hearst...

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