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Margaret Walker: The poetry of...

Margaret Walker: The poetry of...

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our...

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Iris Murdoch: We live in...

Iris Murdoch: We live in...

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find...

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Harper Lee: I'm no idealist...

Harper Lee: I'm no idealist...

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it...

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Jane Austen: A large income...

Jane Austen: A large income...

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Source: In The...

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Gloria Naylor: It's as if...

Gloria Naylor: It's as if...

It's as if I've arrived in a place where it's all spirit and no body -- an overwhelming sense of calm . . . I actually...

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Olive Schreiner: We all enter...

Olive Schreiner: We all enter...

We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest --blank; and the...

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Nancy Astor: It isn't the...

Nancy Astor: It isn't the...

It isn't the common man at all who is important; it's the uncommon man.

Source:...

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Nancy Astor: My vigor, vitality...

Nancy Astor: My vigor, vitality...

My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

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Jessamyn West: Delay breeds fear....

Jessamyn West: Delay breeds fear....

Delay breeds fear.

Source: The Life I Really Lived, 1975
-- Jessamyn West, (Jul...

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Margery Allingham: He did not...

Margery Allingham: He did not...

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash...

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Diane Ravitch: The greatest obstacle...

Diane Ravitch: The greatest obstacle...

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

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Dodie Smith: For though he...

Dodie Smith: For though he...

For though he had very little Latin beyond Cave canem, he had, as a young dog, devoured Shakespeare (in a tasty...

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Lorraine Hansberry: There is always...

Lorraine Hansberry: There is always...

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned...

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Frances Watkins Harper: Apparent failure may...

Frances Watkins Harper: Apparent failure may...

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit...

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Anne Sexton: It doesn't matter...

Anne Sexton: It doesn't matter...

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Source: The...

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Diane Wakoski: Poems come from...

Diane Wakoski: Poems come from...

Poems come from incomplete knowledge.

Source: With Words, The Motorcycle Betrayal...

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Edith Head: You can have...

Edith Head: You can have...

You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.

Source: In Words of...

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Gloria Vanderbilt: . . ....

Gloria Vanderbilt: . . ....

. . . that is the best -- to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are...

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Alice Childress: I continue to...

Alice Childress: I continue to...

I continue to create because writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale...

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Alice Childress: I think women...

Alice Childress: I think women...

I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another, it's a very deep...

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