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Kate Chopin: The past was...

Kate Chopin: The past was...

The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never...

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Kate Chopin: I wonder if...

Kate Chopin: I wonder if...

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of...

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Amelia Barr: There are no...

Amelia Barr: There are no...

There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if...

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Amelia Barr: . . ....

Amelia Barr: . . ....

. . . it is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

Source: All the Days of...

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Anne Frank: Think of all...

Anne Frank: Think of all...

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Source: Diary of a...

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Erma Bombeck: The suburbs were...

Erma Bombeck: The suburbs were...

The suburbs were discovered, quite by accident, one day in the early 1940's by a Welcome Wagon lady who was...

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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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Clara McBride Hale: I'm not an...

Clara McBride Hale: I'm not an...

I'm not an American hero. I'm a person who loves children.

Source: In Words of...

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Marian Wright Edelman: Somehow we are...

Marian Wright Edelman: Somehow we are...

Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the...

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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: No man chooses...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: No man chooses...

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.

Source:...

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Judith Martin: If you can't...

Judith Martin: If you can't...

If you can't be kind, at least be vague.

Source: Miss Manners.
-- Judith Martin,...

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Amelia Barr: Whatever the scientists...

Amelia Barr: Whatever the scientists...

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the...

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Julia Child: It's so beautifully...

Julia Child: It's so beautifully...

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate -- you know someone's fingers have been all over...

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Amy Lowell: A man must...

Amy Lowell: A man must...

A man must be sacrificed now and again
To provide for the next generation of men.


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Marianne Moore: A writer is...

Marianne Moore: A writer is...

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

Source:...

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Lucille Clifton: i keep hearing...

Lucille Clifton: i keep hearing...

i keep hearing
tree talk
water words
and i keep knowing what they mean.


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Mary Caroline Richards: It helps, I...

Mary Caroline Richards: It helps, I...

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to...

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Anna Letitia Barbauld: The dead of...

Anna Letitia Barbauld: The dead of...

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

Source: Poems, 1792.
-- Anna...

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Harriet Monroe: . . ....

Harriet Monroe: . . ....

. . . poetry, 'The Cinderella of the Arts.'

Source: In Harriet Monroe, Famous...

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Vita Sackville-West: Nothing shows up...

Vita Sackville-West: Nothing shows up...

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of...

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