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Geena Davis: Something's like crossed...

Geena Davis: Something's like crossed...

Something's like crossed over in me and I can't go back. I couldn't live.

Source:...

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Loretta Swit: I just can't...

Loretta Swit: I just can't...

I just can't wait to get out there on stage. There's no anxiety at all. I love being able to take this journey with...

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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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Pearl Bailey: We look into...

Pearl Bailey: We look into...

We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us -- not our effects on...

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Mary Antin: Such creatures of...

Mary Antin: Such creatures of...

Such creatures of accident are we, liable to a thousand deaths before we are born. But once we are here, we may create...

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Jeane Kirkpatrick: All of us...

Jeane Kirkpatrick: All of us...

All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by...

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Sylvia Porter: One of the...

Sylvia Porter: One of the...

One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is...

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Brigitte Bardot: Women get more...

Brigitte Bardot: Women get more...

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

Source: In The...

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Mae West: I wrote the...

Mae West: I wrote the...

I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed...

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Tallulah Bankhead: I've tried several...

Tallulah Bankhead: I've tried several...

I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic and the others give me a stiff...

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Lily Tomlin: I always wondered...

Lily Tomlin: I always wondered...

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was...

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Ma Rainey: You ll never...

Ma Rainey: You ll never...

You ll never miss the sunshine till the rain begin to fall
Never miss the sunshine till the rain begin to...

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Joan Baez: The point on...

Joan Baez: The point on...

The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer...

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Ella Fitzgerald: I stole everything...

Ella Fitzgerald: I stole everything...

I stole everything that I heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.

Source: In...

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Alice Childress: I think women...

Alice Childress: I think women...

I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another, it's a very deep...

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Patti Smith: Rock n' roll...

Patti Smith: Rock n' roll...

Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?

Source: In An Uncommon Scold, by...

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Louise Erdrich: His thoughts swam...

Louise Erdrich: His thoughts swam...

His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own...

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Louise Erdrich: I think a...

Louise Erdrich: I think a...

I think a title is like a magnet. It begins to draw these scraps of experience or conversation or memory to it....

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Beth Henley: That's what I...

Beth Henley: That's what I...

That's what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own...

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Harriet Monroe: . . ....

Harriet Monroe: . . ....

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

Source: In Harriet Monroe, Famous...

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