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Coco Chanel: When I can...

Coco Chanel: When I can...

When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for.

Source: Coco Chanel: Her...

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Corita Kent: Women's liberation is...

Corita Kent: Women's liberation is...

Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: I get out...

Georgia O'Keeffe: I get out...

I get out my work and have a show for myself before I have it publicly. I make up my own mind about it -- how good or...

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Louise Nevelson: When you are...

Louise Nevelson: When you are...

When you are doing a piece you are with it. You don't want to wait until next week, when experience will have given...

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Debbi Fields: I had always...

Debbi Fields: I had always...

I had always been taught that life was the other way around -- that you had to make sure you got what was coming to...

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Judith Jamison: Once you've danced,...

Judith Jamison: Once you've danced,...

Once you've danced, you always dance. You can't deny the gifts that God sends your way.

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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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Agnes George DeMille: It takes great...

Agnes George DeMille: It takes great...

It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative, especially in the theater. You have to care so much...

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Joan Rivers: Diets, like clothes,...

Joan Rivers: Diets, like clothes,...

Diets, like clothes, should be tailored to you.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Amie Comeaux: Some things are...

Amie Comeaux: Some things are...

Some things are meant to happen
Some things are bound to be
Love has a way of making doubting hearts...

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Joan Baez: Hypothetical questions get...

Joan Baez: Hypothetical questions get...

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

Source: Daybreak, 1966.
-- Joan...

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Mahalia Jackson: Anybody that sings...

Mahalia Jackson: Anybody that sings...

Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.

Source: In Aretha...

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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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Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood is a...

Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood is a...

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a 1000 dollars for a kiss and 50 cents for your...

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Sally Field: It took me...

Sally Field: It took me...

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

Source: In...

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Jeanne Moreau: Acting deals with...

Jeanne Moreau: Acting deals with...

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he...

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Patricia Neal: Gort. Klaatu baraada...

Patricia Neal: Gort. Klaatu baraada...

Gort. Klaatu baraada nikto. (to the robot Gort)

Source: The Day the Earth Stood...

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Lynn Fontanne: We can be...

Lynn Fontanne: We can be...

We can be bought, but we can't be bored.

Source: On offers from Hollywood,...

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Geena Davis: Something's like crossed...

Geena Davis: Something's like crossed...

Something's like crossed over in me and I can't go back. I couldn't live.

Source:...

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Alice Duer Miller: The innate tendency...

Alice Duer Miller: The innate tendency...

The innate tendency [of men] to appeal to force renders them particularly unfit for the task of government . . . Man's...

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