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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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Dorothy Parker: This is not...

Dorothy Parker: This is not...

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

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Barbara Walters: Trust your gut....

Barbara Walters: Trust your gut....

Trust your gut.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for Success, by Power Dynamics...

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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: You just never...

Sheilah Graham: You just never...

You just never know when you're going into eternity.

Source: In The New Quotable...

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Anzia Yezierska: In America, money...

Anzia Yezierska: In America, money...

In America, money takes the place of God.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Judith Krantz: It's that or...

Judith Krantz: It's that or...

It's that or get fat again, she told herself, as she . . . searched the windows for new merchandise. The thrill was in...

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Judy Blume: Then again, maybe...

Judy Blume: Then again, maybe...

Then again, maybe I won't.

Source: Book title, 1971.
-- Judy Blume, (Feb 12...

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Gayl Jones: I believe that...

Gayl Jones: I believe that...

I believe that all literatures can have political uses and misuses. Sometimes politics can enhance, sometimes it can...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: You can't move...

Eleanor Roosevelt: You can't move...

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: The future belongs...

Eleanor Roosevelt: The future belongs...

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Source: In...

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Margot Asquith: It is easier...

Margot Asquith: It is easier...

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

Source: More or Less...

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Elizabeth Bowen: Fate is not...

Elizabeth Bowen: Fate is not...

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Source: The House in Paris, 1936
--...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Fatalism is the...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Fatalism is the...

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Erica Jong: I went for...

Erica Jong: I went for...

I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged. . . . I had...

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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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Margery Allingham: I am one...

Margery Allingham: I am one...

I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs...

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Margery Allingham: He did not...

Margery Allingham: He did not...

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash...

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Margaret Walker: Let a new...

Margaret Walker: Let a new...

Let a new earth rise. Let another
world be born. Let a bloody
peace be written in the sky.
Let a second...

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Anna Julia Cooper: . . ....

Anna Julia Cooper: . . ....

. . . women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount a barrel and harangue by the hour every time they imagine...

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