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Edith Nesbitt: Little brown brother,...

Edith Nesbitt: Little brown brother,...

Little brown brother, oh! lime brown brother,
Are you awake in the dark?


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Marge Piercy: The will to...

Marge Piercy: The will to...

The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass...

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Helen Keller: Keep your face...

Helen Keller: Keep your face...

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

Source: In The...

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Martha Beck: Whoever said love...

Martha Beck: Whoever said love...

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest...

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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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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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Shana Alexander: Until quite recently...

Shana Alexander: Until quite recently...

Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts . . .

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Suzanne Curchod Necker: It is no...

Suzanne Curchod Necker: It is no...

It is no virtue to bear calamities if we do not feel them.

Source: In The Last Word...

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Catherine Drinker Bowen: Writers seldom choose...

Catherine Drinker Bowen: Writers seldom choose...

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never...

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Julie Burchill: Now the whole...

Julie Burchill: Now the whole...

Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring,...

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Anya Seton: The soul ....

Anya Seton: The soul ....

The soul . . . may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

Source: The...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: A child is...

Barbara Ehrenreich: A child is...

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you...

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Sojourner Truth: It is the...

Sojourner Truth: It is the...

It is the mind that makes the body.

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-- Sojourner Truth, (Nov 18...

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Ernestine L Rose: . . ....

Ernestine L Rose: . . ....

. . . the reward of springing from the consciousness of right, of endeavoring to benefit unborn...

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Margaret Sanger: [The woman's] mission...

Margaret Sanger: [The woman's] mission...

[The woman's] mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a...

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Marion Woodman: Without an understanding...

Marion Woodman: Without an understanding...

Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and...

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Mary Pettibone Poole: The next best...

Mary Pettibone Poole: The next best...

The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is.

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Anita Brookner: You never know...

Anita Brookner: You never know...

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew...

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Anita Brookner: A man of...

Anita Brookner: A man of...

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

Source: Rachel, referring...

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