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Ethel Merman: I can never...

Ethel Merman: I can never...

I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd...

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Pearl Bailey: We must change...

Pearl Bailey: We must change...

We must change in order to survive.

Source: Hurry Up American and Split,...

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Joni Mitchell: Moons and Junes...

Joni Mitchell: Moons and Junes...

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels
The dizzy dancing way you feel
As every fairy tale comes real
I've looked...

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Joanna Baillie: The mind cloth...

Joanna Baillie: The mind cloth...

The mind cloth shape itself to its own wants
And can bear all things.


Source:...

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Joanna Baillie: How do men...

Joanna Baillie: How do men...

How do men act, when they together stand,
on the last perch of this swiftly-sinking wreck?
Do they not bravely...

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Anna Letitia Barbauld: You speak of...

Anna Letitia Barbauld: You speak of...

You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already...

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox: We flatter those...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: We flatter those...

We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,/And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those...

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Glenda Jackson: I look forward...

Glenda Jackson: I look forward...

I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Jean Harlow: This place certainly...

Jean Harlow: This place certainly...

This place certainly reeks of hospitality and good cheer, or maybe it's this cheese.

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Ava Gardner: Everybody kisses everybody...

Ava Gardner: Everybody kisses everybody...

Everybody kisses everybody else in this crummy business all the time. It's the kissiest business in the...

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Geraldine Chaplin: It's the change...

Geraldine Chaplin: It's the change...

It's the change of rhythm which I think is what keeps me alive. In Spain I hear so much noise from my window that...

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Vera-Ellen: What does it...

Vera-Ellen: What does it...

What does it matter? They're both famous.

Source: As Judy Haynes, discussing which...

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Louise Erdrich: I was in...

Louise Erdrich: I was in...

I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.

Source: In...

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Zora Neale Hurston: I want a...

Zora Neale Hurston: I want a...

I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.

Source: Dust Tracks on a Road,...

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Zora Neale Hurston: No matter how...

Zora Neale Hurston: No matter how...

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

Source: In...

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Vita Sackville-West: [The writer] catches...

Vita Sackville-West: [The writer] catches...

[The writer] catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of...

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Lorraine Hansberry: The thing that...

Lorraine Hansberry: The thing that...

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you...

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Frances Watkins Harper: There is material...

Frances Watkins Harper: There is material...

There is material among us for the broadest comedies and the deepest tragedies, but, besides money and leisure, it...

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Christina Rossetti: Better by far...

Christina Rossetti: Better by far...

Better by far that you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

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Janet Erskine Stuart: Don't wait for...

Janet Erskine Stuart: Don't wait for...

Don't wait for ideal circumstances; they will never come; nor for the best opportunities.

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