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Natalie Clifford Barney: Most virtue is...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Most virtue is...

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Source: Quoted in: My Country 'tis...

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E L Konigsburg: Lying in bed...

E L Konigsburg: Lying in bed...

Lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free...

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Mary Webb: The well of...

Mary Webb: The well of...

The well of Providence is deep. It's the buckets we bring to it that are small.

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Iris Murdoch: All artists dream...

Iris Murdoch: All artists dream...

All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to...

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Eudora Welty: Writers and travelers...

Eudora Welty: Writers and travelers...

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.

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Anna Julia Cooper: . . ....

Anna Julia Cooper: . . ....

. . . women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount a barrel and harangue by the hour every time they imagine...

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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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Jane Austen: A person who...

Jane Austen: A person who...

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

Source: Miss...

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Marguerite Yourcenar: The memory of...

Marguerite Yourcenar: The memory of...

The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to...

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Hillary Rodham Clinton: The challenge is...

Hillary Rodham Clinton: The challenge is...

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible,...

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Barbara Jordan: If you're going...

Barbara Jordan: If you're going...

If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.

Source: In...

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Michelle Obama: One of the...

Michelle Obama: One of the...

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says...

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Queen Victoria: Men never think,...

Queen Victoria: Men never think,...

Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will...

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Margot Asquith: It is always...

Margot Asquith: It is always...

It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race...

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Dorothy L Sayers: None of us...

Dorothy L Sayers: None of us...

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that -- they have...

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Erica Jong: Your morals are...

Erica Jong: Your morals are...

Your morals are like roads through the Alps. They make these hairpin turns all the time.

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Mary Webb: Saddle your dreams...

Mary Webb: Saddle your dreams...

Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'ern.

Source: Precious Bane, 1924.
-- Mary...

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Mary Pettibone Poole: You can keep...

Mary Pettibone Poole: You can keep...

You can keep your friends by not giving them away.

Source: A Glass Eye at a...

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Susan Sontag: Ambition if it...

Susan Sontag: Ambition if it...

Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Source: The...

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Rebecca West: If the whole...

Rebecca West: If the whole...

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at...

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