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Rebecca West: Men must be...

Rebecca West: Men must be...

Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain...

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Jane Addams: Unless our conception...

Jane Addams: Unless our conception...

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest...

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Doris Lilly: The women [who...

Doris Lilly: The women [who...

The women [who marry millionaires] usually do everything for their men. They pack for them, make their phone calls and...

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Delphine de Girardin: Instinct is the...

Delphine de Girardin: Instinct is the...

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Source: In Reader's Digest, 1 Oct 1972.
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Suzanne Curchod Necker: Worship your heroes...

Suzanne Curchod Necker: Worship your heroes...

Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Dolores Huerta: If you haven't...

Dolores Huerta: If you haven't...

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

Source: In...

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Janet Flanner: I keep going...

Janet Flanner: I keep going...

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

Source: On her...

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Fran Lebowitz: The 3 questions...

Fran Lebowitz: The 3 questions...

The 3 questions of greatest concern are:, 1) Is it attractive?, 2) Is it amusing?, 3) Does it know its...

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Erma Bombeck: The bad times...

Erma Bombeck: The bad times...

The bad times I can handle. It's the good times that drive me crazy. When is the other shoe going to...

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Clementine Paddleford: Beer is the...

Clementine Paddleford: Beer is the...

Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.

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Dorothy Parker: If, with the...

Dorothy Parker: If, with the...

If, with the literate, I am
Impelled to try an epigram,
I never seek to take the credit;
We all assume that...

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Linda Ellerbee: How is it...

Linda Ellerbee: How is it...

How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew,...

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Diane Sawyer: I'm always fascinated...

Diane Sawyer: I'm always fascinated...

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

Source: TV Guide.
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Marie de Sevigne: . . .the...

Marie de Sevigne: . . .the...

. . .the most astonishing, the most surprising, the most marvelous, the most miraculous. . . the greatest, the least,...

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Pauline Kael: In the arts,...

Pauline Kael: In the arts,...

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is...

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Anne Frank: How wonderful it...

Anne Frank: How wonderful it...

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the...

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Marie de Sevigne: When I step...

Marie de Sevigne: When I step...

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

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Jeannette Rankin: You can no...

Jeannette Rankin: You can no...

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Source: In Jeanette...

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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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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: There are no...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: There are no...

There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier...

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