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Corita Kent: Women's liberation is...

Corita Kent: Women's liberation is...

Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the...

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Diane Arbus: My favorite thing...

Diane Arbus: My favorite thing...

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

Source: In Diane Arbus: An...

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Sara Teasdale: I have no...

Sara Teasdale: I have no...

I have no riches but my thoughts,
Yet these are wealth enough for me.


Source:...

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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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Louise Erdrich: It was enough...

Louise Erdrich: It was enough...

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations...

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Vita Sackville-West: I suppose the...

Vita Sackville-West: I suppose the...

I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to...

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Wendy Wasserstein: The real reason...

Wendy Wasserstein: The real reason...

The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.

Source: Interviews with...

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Lorraine Hansberry: There is always...

Lorraine Hansberry: There is always...

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned...

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Gwendolyn Brooks: Reading is important...

Gwendolyn Brooks: Reading is important...

Reading is important -- read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

Source:...

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Ava Gardner: Everybody kisses everybody...

Ava Gardner: Everybody kisses everybody...

Everybody kisses everybody else in this crummy business all the time. It's the kissiest business in the...

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Ruth Gordon: So easy to...

Ruth Gordon: So easy to...

So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?

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Deborah Kerr: Personally, I think...

Deborah Kerr: Personally, I think...

Personally, I think if a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be...

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Anne Baxter: It's best to...

Anne Baxter: It's best to...

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the...

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Julia Roberts: I wouldn't do...

Julia Roberts: I wouldn't do...

I wouldn't do nudity in films. To act with my clothes on is a performance. To act with my clothes off is a...

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Donna Reed: When you handle...

Donna Reed: When you handle...

When you handle yourself, use your head; when you handle others, use your heart.

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Claudette Colbert: Men don't get...

Claudette Colbert: Men don't get...

Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.

Source: In...

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Pearl Bailey: I see their...

Pearl Bailey: I see their...

I see their souls, and I hold them in my hands, and because I love them they weigh nothing. [on...

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Adelaide A Proctor: See how time...

Adelaide A Proctor: See how time...

See how time makes all grief decay.

Source: Life in Death, The Poems of Adelaide...

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Joanna Baillie: The mind cloth...

Joanna Baillie: The mind cloth...

The mind cloth shape itself to its own wants
And can bear all things.


Source:...

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Adrienne Rich: We might possess...

Adrienne Rich: We might possess...

We might possess every technological resource . . . but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless,...

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