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Zora Neale Hurston: I have a...

Zora Neale Hurston: I have a...

I have a strong suspicion . . . that much that passes for constant love is a golded-up moment walking in its...

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May Swenson: Human double-barreled eyes,<br>in...

May Swenson: Human double-barreled eyes,
in...

Human double-barreled eyes,
in their narrow blind,
hope to shoot and hit
-- if they can find it
-- the...

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May Swenson: THE DNA MOLECULE<br>THE...

May Swenson: THE DNA MOLECULE
THE...

THE DNA MOLECULE
THE DNA MOLECULE
THE DNA MOLECULE
is The Nude Descending a Staircase
a circular one. See...

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Stevie Smith: Fourteen-year-old, why must...

Stevie Smith: Fourteen-year-old, why must...

Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote,
Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat?
I'm fourteen years...

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Emma Lazarus: Jews are the...

Emma Lazarus: Jews are the...

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

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Diane Wakoski: Poems come from...

Diane Wakoski: Poems come from...

Poems come from incomplete knowledge.

Source: With Words, The Motorcycle Betrayal...

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Rita Dove: Can it be...

Rita Dove: Can it be...

Can it be that even as one grows to fit the space one lives in, one cannot grow until there's space to...

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Audre Lorde: I train myself...

Audre Lorde: I train myself...

I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what.

Source: The Cancer...

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Vera Brittain: I thought that...

Vera Brittain: I thought that...

I thought that spring must last forevermore
For I was young and loved, and it was May.


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Marie Lloyd: I'm one of...

Marie Lloyd: I'm one of...

I'm one of the ruins that Cromwell knocked about a bit.

Source: Song title
--...

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Brigitte Bardot: It is sad...

Brigitte Bardot: It is sad...

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Jacqueline Bisset: You need to...

Jacqueline Bisset: You need to...

You need to get in touch with your body ... do dance, movement, learn to be supple, or be someone who's coordinated,...

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Cornelia Otis Skinner: I can't see...

Cornelia Otis Skinner: I can't see...

I can't see how any woman can find time to do to herself all the things that must apparently be done to make herself...

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Lily Tomlin: Reality is nothing...

Lily Tomlin: Reality is nothing...

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Source: In Pearls of Wisdom, ed. J. Agel...

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Simone Signoret: If Marilyn is...

Simone Signoret: If Marilyn is...

If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: When you take...

Georgia O'Keeffe: When you take...

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment.

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Louise Nevelson: Life isn't one...

Louise Nevelson: Life isn't one...

Life isn't one straight line. Most of us have to be transplanted, like a tree, before we...

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Bernice Johnson Reagon: I learned that...

Bernice Johnson Reagon: I learned that...

I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day, I don't...

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Rosalind Russell: Flops are a...

Rosalind Russell: Flops are a...

Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the...

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Elayne Boosler: To listen to...

Elayne Boosler: To listen to...

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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