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Shelley Winters: In Hollywood, all...

Shelley Winters: In Hollywood, all...

In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes...

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Geena Davis: I've always looked...

Geena Davis: I've always looked...

I've always looked up to him, even though he is shorter.

Source: Describing Dustin...

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Eleonora Duse: If the sight...

Eleonora Duse: If the sight...

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: If you surrender...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: If you surrender...

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those...

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Simone de Beauvoir: The fact that...

Simone de Beauvoir: The fact that...

The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human...

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Margaret Anderson: . . ....

Margaret Anderson: . . ....

. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you...

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Helen Lawrenson: A skirt is...

Helen Lawrenson: A skirt is...

A skirt is no obstacle to extemporaneous sex, but it is physically impossible to make love to a girl while she is...

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Margaret Anderson: Intellectuals are too...

Margaret Anderson: Intellectuals are too...

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.

Source: The Strange Necessity, pt. 1,...

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Jamaica Kincaid: My disappointments stand...

Jamaica Kincaid: My disappointments stand...

My disappointments stand up and grow ever taller. They will not be lost to me.

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Sara Jeannette Duncan: Clothes and courage...

Sara Jeannette Duncan: Clothes and courage...

Clothes and courage have much to do with each other.

Source: In Barnes & Noble Book...

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Dolores Huerta: Among poor people,...

Dolores Huerta: Among poor people,...

Among poor people, there's not any question about women being strong -- even stronger than men -- they work in the...

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Emma Goldman: Methods and means...

Emma Goldman: Methods and means...

Methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

Source: My Further...

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Andrea Dworkin: Marriage as an...

Andrea Dworkin: Marriage as an...

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage...

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Doris Lessing: In the writing...

Doris Lessing: In the writing...

In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I...

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Rose Kennedy: I tell myself...

Rose Kennedy: I tell myself...

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts -- spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and...

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Pamela Hansford Johnson: I have always...

Pamela Hansford Johnson: I have always...

I have always wanted to write in such a way that will make people think, Why, I've always thought that but never found...

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Maya Angelou: Here on the...

Maya Angelou: Here on the...

Here on the pulse of this new day,
You may have the grace to look up and out
And into your sister's eyes,...

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Anna Jameson: What we truly...

Anna Jameson: What we truly...

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the...

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Barbara Sher: The amount of...

Barbara Sher: The amount of...

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

Source:...

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Mary Church Terrell: [T]he chasm between...

Mary Church Terrell: [T]he chasm between...

[T]he chasm between the principles upon which this Government was founded, in which it still professes to believe, and...

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