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Sophia Loren: There is a...

Sophia Loren: There is a...

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of...

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Zsa Zsa Gabor: I never hated...

Zsa Zsa Gabor: I never hated...

I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.

Source: In Sayings of the...

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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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Geena Davis: If you risk...

Geena Davis: If you risk...

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

Source: in the Vanity Fair.
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Vera-Ellen: What does it...

Vera-Ellen: What does it...

What does it matter? They're both famous.

Source: As Judy Haynes, discussing which...

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Shirley Booth: There is an...

Shirley Booth: There is an...

There is an audience for every play; it's just that sometimes it can't wait long enough to find...

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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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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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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: It helped her...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: It helped her...

It helped her [Caroline] learn that something you create yourself is the best kind of...

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: [I want] minimum...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: [I want] minimum...

[I want] minimum information given with maximum politeness.

Source: Instructions to...

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Carol Burnett: Words, once they...

Carol Burnett: Words, once they...

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

Source: In Reader's...

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Carol Burnett: I liked myself...

Carol Burnett: I liked myself...

I liked myself better when I wasn't me.

Source: On her high-school drama classes,...

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Goldie Hawn: How long can...

Goldie Hawn: How long can...

How long can you be cute?

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for Success, by...

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Shirley Temple Black: I stopped believing...

Shirley Temple Black: I stopped believing...

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for...

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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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Barbara Walters: Trust your gut....

Barbara Walters: Trust your gut....

Trust your gut.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for Success, by Power Dynamics...

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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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Anna Jameson: A man may...

Anna Jameson: A man may...

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

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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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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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