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Natalie Clifford Barney: Youth is not...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Youth is not...

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Source: Samples...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Fatalism is the...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Fatalism is the...

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Djuna Barnes: An image is...

Djuna Barnes: An image is...

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

Source: Nightwood,...

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Paule Marshall: Once a great...

Paule Marshall: Once a great...

Once a great wrong has been done, it never dies. People speak the words of peace, but their hearts do not forgive....

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Natalie Clifford Barney: It is time...

Natalie Clifford Barney: It is time...

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

Source: In Adam, no. 299, On Writing and...

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Anne Frank: The final forming...

Anne Frank: The final forming...

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Source: The...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: So why do...

Barbara Ehrenreich: So why do...

So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because...

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Helen Keller: I am only...

Helen Keller: I am only...

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do...

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Dorothy Parker: You can't teach...

Dorothy Parker: You can't teach...

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.

Source: In The Algonquin Wits, ed. by...

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Georgie Anne Geyer: I truly believe...

Georgie Anne Geyer: I truly believe...

I truly believe that women of my generation can bring a new cleansing element to American public...

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Anne Frank: Who would ever...

Anne Frank: Who would ever...

Who would ever think that so much can go on in the soul of a young girl?

Source:...

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Angelina Grimke: I am a...

Angelina Grimke: I am a...

I am a mystery to myself.

Source: Letter, Feb 1838; In Letters of Theodore Dwight...

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Dorothy Height: The black woman...

Dorothy Height: The black woman...

The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength.

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Fannie Lou Hamer: But you see...

Fannie Lou Hamer: But you see...

But you see now baby, whether you have a ph.d., d.d. or no d, we're in this bag together. And whether you are from...

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Emma Goldman: Methods and means...

Emma Goldman: Methods and means...

Methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

Source: My Further...

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Margaret Fuller: Art can only...

Margaret Fuller: Art can only...

Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior...

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Virginia Woolf: My own brain...

Virginia Woolf: My own brain...

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then...

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Marion Woodman: Without an understanding...

Marion Woodman: Without an understanding...

Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and...

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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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Susan Sontag: AIDS occupies such...

Susan Sontag: AIDS occupies such...

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very...

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