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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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Helen Lawrenson: A skirt is...

Helen Lawrenson: A skirt is...

A skirt is no obstacle to extemporaneous sex, but it is physically impossible to make love to a girl while she is...

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Rona Barrett: Sophia Loren is...

Rona Barrett: Sophia Loren is...

Sophia Loren is the embodiment of what a woman should be -- the epitome of femaleness. Most of the young people today...

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Mignon McLaughlin: If I knew...

Mignon McLaughlin: If I knew...

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

Source: The Second...

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Jane Welsh Carlyle: The surest way...

Jane Welsh Carlyle: The surest way...

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of...

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Eda LeShan: . ....

Eda LeShan: . ....

. . . in all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly...

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Margaret Fuller: Genius will live...

Margaret Fuller: Genius will live...

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning...

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Margaret Fuller: It is not...

Margaret Fuller: It is not...

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made...

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Kate Millett: If only no...

Kate Millett: If only no...

If only no one had told them I was mad. Then I wouldn't be.

Source: The Loony-Bin...

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Peggy Noonan: Part of courage...

Peggy Noonan: Part of courage...

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: If you surrender...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: If you surrender...

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those...

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Eileen Caddy: Life is full...

Eileen Caddy: Life is full...

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to...

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Alice Roosevelt Longworth: I've always believed...

Alice Roosevelt Longworth: I've always believed...

I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested...

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Martha Beck: Any transition serious...

Martha Beck: Any transition serious...

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of...

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Harriet Van Horne: Closing these two...

Harriet Van Horne: Closing these two...

Closing these two books, a reader senses that Joan Crawford, idol of an age, would have made an exemplary prison...

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Anne Frank: How wonderful it...

Anne Frank: How wonderful it...

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the...

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Julia Ward Howe: Disarm, disarm. The...

Julia Ward Howe: Disarm, disarm. The...

Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence...

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Jane Addams: Unless our conception...

Jane Addams: Unless our conception...

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest...

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Barbara Smith: This invisibility [of...

Barbara Smith: This invisibility [of...

This invisibility [of Black women], however, means that the opportunities for creative research are...

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Jean Kerr: You don't seem...

Jean Kerr: You don't seem...

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy....

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