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Emily Carr: Twenty can't be...

Emily Carr: Twenty can't be...

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love...

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Coco Chanel: Material things aside,...

Coco Chanel: Material things aside,...

Material things aside, we need no advice but approval.

Source: Coco Chanel: Her...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: Most people in...

Georgia O'Keeffe: Most people in...

Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want...

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Louise Nevelson: True strength is...

Louise Nevelson: True strength is...

True strength is delicate.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith...

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Mary Kay Ash: Listen long enough...

Mary Kay Ash: Listen long enough...

Listen long enough and the person will generally come up with an adequate solution.

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Anita Roddick: I hope to...

Anita Roddick: I hope to...

I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs.

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Faith Popcorn: The future bears...

Faith Popcorn: The future bears...

The future bears a resemblance to the past, only more so.

Source: The Popcorn...

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Gypsy Rose Lee: Anything worth doing...

Gypsy Rose Lee: Anything worth doing...

Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.

Source:
-- Gypsy Rose Lee,...

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Joan Rivers: Yeah, I read...

Joan Rivers: Yeah, I read...

Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.

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Beatrice Lillie: [R]eaction and laughter...

Beatrice Lillie: [R]eaction and laughter...

[R]eaction and laughter come easier at an evening performance, when the audience is more inclined to forget its...

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Phyllis Diller: Cleaning your house...

Phyllis Diller: Cleaning your house...

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops...

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Alice Childress: I continue to...

Alice Childress: I continue to...

I continue to create because writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale...

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Maya Angelou: There is no...

Maya Angelou: There is no...

There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.

Source: From a...

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Diane Trilling: Writers are what...

Diane Trilling: Writers are what...

Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write.

Source: In Diana...

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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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Judith Martin: When a society...

Judith Martin: When a society...

When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly...

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Anne Frank: One must apply...

Anne Frank: One must apply...

One must apply one's reason to everything here, learning to obey, to shut up, to help, to be good, to give in, and I...

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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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Mary Church Terrell: [T]he chasm between...

Mary Church Terrell: [T]he chasm between...

[T]he chasm between the principles upon which this Government was founded, in which it still professes to believe, and...

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Julia Ward Howe: Every life has...

Julia Ward Howe: Every life has...

Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare and profitless...

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