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Jamaica Kincaid: My disappointments stand...

Jamaica Kincaid: My disappointments stand...

My disappointments stand up and grow ever taller. They will not be lost to me.

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Antoinette Brown Blackwell: There were angry...

Antoinette Brown Blackwell: There were angry...

There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes, but above me and within me, there was a...

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Maya Angelou: Each of us...

Maya Angelou: Each of us...

Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead and . . . if the future road looms...

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Kate Chopin: The voice of...

Kate Chopin: The voice of...

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close...

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Rebecca West: It is the...

Rebecca West: It is the...

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master...

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Elizabeth Janeway: In this nadir...

Elizabeth Janeway: In this nadir...

In this nadir of poetic repute, when the only verse that most people read from one year's end to the next is what...

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Marsha Sinetar: Change can either...

Marsha Sinetar: Change can either...

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block...

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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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Ntozake Shange: Where there is...

Ntozake Shange: Where there is...

Where there is woman there is magic.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Mary Caroline Richards: We must be...

Mary Caroline Richards: We must be...

We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the winds of life blow through us, to be our breath, our...

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Harriet Monroe: . . ....

Harriet Monroe: . . ....

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

Source: In Harriet Monroe, Famous...

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Louise A Bogan: Because language is...

Louise A Bogan: Because language is...

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a...

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Vita Sackville-West: Ambition, old as...

Vita Sackville-West: Ambition, old as...

Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.

Source: 'No...

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Anne Bradstreet: Youth is the...

Anne Bradstreet: Youth is the...

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

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Sarah Siddons: Sorry am I...

Sarah Siddons: Sorry am I...

Sorry am I to say, I have often observed that I have performed worst when I most ardently wished to do better than...

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Barbra Streisand: What does it...

Barbra Streisand: What does it...

What does it mean when people applaud? . . . Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of...

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Camille Paglia: Our major universities...

Camille Paglia: Our major universities...

Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around...

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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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Rita Rudner: Someday I want...

Rita Rudner: Someday I want...

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to...

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Jane Wagner: I personally think...

Jane Wagner: I personally think...

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

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