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Colette Dowling: Now [the Cinderella...

Colette Dowling: Now [the Cinderella...

Now [the Cinderella Complex] tends to hit women after college . . . . When the first thrill of freedom subsides and...

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Julie Burchill: Now the whole...

Julie Burchill: Now the whole...

Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring,...

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Marguerite Duras: The thing that's...

Marguerite Duras: The thing that's...

The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a...

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Katherine Anne Porter: You have to...

Katherine Anne Porter: You have to...

You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have...

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Anne Tyler: I never think...

Anne Tyler: I never think...

I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too...

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Anne Sophie Swetchine: In order to...

Anne Sophie Swetchine: In order to...

In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A...

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Sandra Day O'Connor: It is difficult...

Sandra Day O'Connor: It is difficult...

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful...

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Barbara De Angelis: Only when your...

Barbara De Angelis: Only when your...

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or...

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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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Lydia M Child: The eye of...

Lydia M Child: The eye of...

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

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Jane Rule: I believe only...

Jane Rule: I believe only...

I believe only in art and failure.

Source: This is Not for You, 1970.
-- Jane...

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Golda Meir: Old age is...

Golda Meir: Old age is...

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard there's nothing you can...

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Mary Robinson: In a society...

Mary Robinson: In a society...

In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power,...

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Louisa May Alcott: It takes people...

Louisa May Alcott: It takes people...

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and...

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Estelle Ramey: I don't mind...

Estelle Ramey: I don't mind...

I don't mind . . . the fun and games of being treated like a fragile flower. But as a physiologist working with the...

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Diane Ravitch: The greatest obstacle...

Diane Ravitch: The greatest obstacle...

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

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Pearl Buck: In this unbelievable...

Pearl Buck: In this unbelievable...

In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity,...

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Maria Edgeworth: When one illusion...

Maria Edgeworth: When one illusion...

When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I...

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Mary Martha Sherwood: . . ....

Mary Martha Sherwood: . . ....

. . . a dirty exterior is a great enemy to beauty of all descriptions.

Source: The...

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Margery Allingham: Chemists employed by...

Margery Allingham: Chemists employed by...

Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can find it in shreds of cloth, in the...

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