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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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Golda Meir: At work, you...

Golda Meir: At work, you...

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such...

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Ninon de Lenclos: Much more genius...

Ninon de Lenclos: Much more genius...

Much more genius is needed to make love than to command armies.

Source: In The...

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Anne Bronte: But he that...

Anne Bronte: But he that...

But he that dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.


Source: The...

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Angela Carter: I think the...

Angela Carter: I think the...

I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but...

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Gail Godwin: The best antidote...

Gail Godwin: The best antidote...

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: there is a forward...

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Anne Sophie Swetchine: In this world...

Anne Sophie Swetchine: In this world...

In this world of change, nothing which comes stays, and nothing which goes is lost.

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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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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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Pearl Buck: I am comforted...

Pearl Buck: I am comforted...

I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: It is time...

Natalie Clifford Barney: It is time...

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

Source: In Adam, no. 299, On Writing and...

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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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Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: Of all the...

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: Of all the...

Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to...

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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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Nora Ephron: We have lived...

Nora Ephron: We have lived...

We have lived through the era when happiness was a warm puppy, and the era when happiness was a dry martini, and now...

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Kate Seredy: Kill the snake...

Kate Seredy: Kill the snake...

Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your...

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Margaret Halsey: Some persons talk...

Margaret Halsey: Some persons talk...

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

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Gloria Naylor: Spoiled. That's all...

Gloria Naylor: Spoiled. That's all...

Spoiled. That's all it's about -- can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you...

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Fay Weldon: The New Women!...

Fay Weldon: The New Women!...

The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself . . . .They are satiated by...

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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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