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Geena Davis: If you risk...

Geena Davis: If you risk...

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

Source: in the Vanity Fair.
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Marie Dressler: There is a...

Marie Dressler: There is a...

There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. ...

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Eleonora Duse: Interpretation is the...

Eleonora Duse: Interpretation is the...

Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow -- that great...

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Joan Collins: Dynasty was the...

Joan Collins: Dynasty was the...

Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be...

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Mary Antin: My days in...

Mary Antin: My days in...

My days in the slums were pregnant with possibilities: it only needed the ripeness of events to make them fruit forth...

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Wilma Pearl Mankiller: A lot of...

Wilma Pearl Mankiller: A lot of...

A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change...

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: It helped her...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: It helped her...

It helped her [Caroline] learn that something you create yourself is the best kind of...

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Imelda Marcos: I get so...

Imelda Marcos: I get so...

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Children use the...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Children use the...

Children use the fist
Until they are of the age to use the brain.


Source: In...

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Rita Dove: Can it be...

Rita Dove: Can it be...

Can it be that even as one grows to fit the space one lives in, one cannot grow until there's space to...

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Vera Brittain: I thought that...

Vera Brittain: I thought that...

I thought that spring must last forevermore
For I was young and loved, and it was May.


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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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Rosalind Russell: Flops are a...

Rosalind Russell: Flops are a...

Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the...

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Drew Barrymore: God made a...

Drew Barrymore: God made a...

God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs...

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Bernice Johnson Reagon: There is nowhere...

Bernice Johnson Reagon: There is nowhere...

There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.

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Patti Smith: As far as...

Patti Smith: As far as...

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Louise Brooks: Most beautiful but...

Louise Brooks: Most beautiful but...

Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't...

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Brigitte Bardot: It is sad...

Brigitte Bardot: It is sad...

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Tallulah Bankhead: Dahling Congressman Boykin:...

Tallulah Bankhead: Dahling Congressman Boykin:...

Dahling Congressman Boykin: 10 AM is an unprecedented time for a child of the grease paint to cope with the...

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Lily Tomlin: Reality is nothing...

Lily Tomlin: Reality is nothing...

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Source: In Pearls of Wisdom, ed. J. Agel...

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