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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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Marilyn Monroe: Men are so...

Marilyn Monroe: Men are so...

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Cornelia Otis Skinner: It is disturbing...

Cornelia Otis Skinner: It is disturbing...

It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is...

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Sandra Bernhard: Love is the...

Sandra Bernhard: Love is the...

Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.

Source: In Words of...

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Lily Tomlin: If truth is...

Lily Tomlin: If truth is...

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Source: In...

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Goldie Hawn: There are only...

Goldie Hawn: There are only...

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood -- Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss...

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Louise Erdrich: I think a...

Louise Erdrich: I think a...

I think a title is like a magnet. It begins to draw these scraps of experience or conversation or memory to it....

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Marsha Norman: Dreams are illustrations...

Marsha Norman: Dreams are illustrations...

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.

Source: The...

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Wendy Wasserstein: The real reason...

Wendy Wasserstein: The real reason...

The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.

Source: Interviews with...

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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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Ethel Watts Mumford: Said a Rooster,...

Ethel Watts Mumford: Said a Rooster,...

Said a Rooster, I'd have you all know
I am nearly the whole of the show;
Why, the Sun every morn
Gets up with...

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Gwendolyn Brooks: As you get...

Gwendolyn Brooks: As you get...

As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet...

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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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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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Rachel Donaldson Jackson: A being so...

Rachel Donaldson Jackson: A being so...

A being so gentle and so virtuous slander might wound, but could not dishonor.

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Marianne Moore: It is human...

Marianne Moore: It is human...

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Mari Evans: Idiom is larger...

Mari Evans: Idiom is larger...

Idiom is larger than geography; it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the...

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Laugh, and the...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Laugh, and the...

Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its...

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Elayne Boosler: To listen to...

Elayne Boosler: To listen to...

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Joan Baez: The point on...

Joan Baez: The point on...

The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer...

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