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Marilyn French: One thing that...

Marilyn French: One thing that...

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape. . . it allows us to fix our emotions...

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Hortense Calisher: A happy childhood...

Hortense Calisher: A happy childhood...

A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: Man forgives women...

Minna Thomas Antrim: Man forgives women...

Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him.

Source: Naked Truth and...

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Anne Frank: The final forming...

Anne Frank: The final forming...

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Source: The...

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Barbara Smith: This invisibility [of...

Barbara Smith: This invisibility [of...

This invisibility [of Black women], however, means that the opportunities for creative research are...

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Erma Bombeck: The bad times...

Erma Bombeck: The bad times...

The bad times I can handle. It's the good times that drive me crazy. When is the other shoe going to...

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Helen Keller: There is plenty...

Helen Keller: There is plenty...

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete.

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Dorothy Parker: You can't teach...

Dorothy Parker: You can't teach...

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.

Source: In The Algonquin Wits, ed. by...

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Martha Beck: Any transition serious...

Martha Beck: Any transition serious...

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of...

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Julia Child: Non cooks think...

Julia Child: Non cooks think...

Non cooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, well, so...

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Sheilah Graham: No one has...

Sheilah Graham: No one has...

No one has a closest friend in Hollywood.

Source: The Rest of the Story,...

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Anne Bronte: Keep guard over...

Anne Bronte: Keep guard over...

Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets, lest they betray...

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Carson McCullers: There's nothing that...

Carson McCullers: There's nothing that...

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old...

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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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Alice Walker: God is inside...

Alice Walker: God is inside...

God is inside you and inside everybody else. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just...

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Mary Catherine Bateson: Sharing is sometimes...

Mary Catherine Bateson: Sharing is sometimes...

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Freda Adler: The passionate controversies...

Freda Adler: The passionate controversies...

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: Do what you...

Eleanor Roosevelt: Do what you...

Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.

Source: In...

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Elizabeth Dole: We aim to...

Elizabeth Dole: We aim to...

We aim to give a 'wake-up call' to businesses, to alert them to the fact that the next 'fair-haired boy' of their...

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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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