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Elizabeth Dole: We aim to...

Elizabeth Dole: We aim to...

We aim to give a 'wake-up call' to businesses, to alert them to the fact that the next 'fair-haired boy' of their...

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Dorothy L Sayers: A continual atmosphere...

Dorothy L Sayers: A continual atmosphere...

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your...

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George Sand: Try to keep...

George Sand: Try to keep...

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life...

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Flannery O'Connor: The novel is...

Flannery O'Connor: The novel is...

The novel is an art form and when you use it for anything other than art, you pervert it.

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Alice Walker: Helped are those...

Alice Walker: Helped are those...

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a...

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Carolyn Wells: A blunder at...

Carolyn Wells: A blunder at...

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

Source:...

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Mary McCarthy: It has to...

Mary McCarthy: It has to...

It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of...

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Elizabeth Bowen: I suppose art...

Elizabeth Bowen: I suppose art...

I suppose art is the only thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

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Jessamyn West: Delay breeds fear....

Jessamyn West: Delay breeds fear....

Delay breeds fear.

Source: The Life I Really Lived, 1975
-- Jessamyn West, (Jul...

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Jessamyn West: A taste for...

Jessamyn West: A taste for...

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Most virtue is...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Most virtue is...

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Source: Quoted in: My Country 'tis...

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Erica Jong: Growing up female...

Erica Jong: Growing up female...

Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice...

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Maria Edgeworth: When one illusion...

Maria Edgeworth: When one illusion...

When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I...

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Dorothy Gilman: If something anticipated...

Dorothy Gilman: If something anticipated...

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel -- nothing at...

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Dinah Mulock Craik: Believe only half...

Dinah Mulock Craik: Believe only half...

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Source: In Words of...

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Tillie Olsen: There are worse...

Tillie Olsen: There are worse...

There are worse words than cuss words, there are words that hurt.

Source: In Words...

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Fay Weldon: Young women especially...

Fay Weldon: Young women especially...

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that 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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Freda Adler: That man is...

Freda Adler: That man is...

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws...

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Alice James: Truly nothing is...

Alice James: Truly nothing is...

Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected.

Source: In Words of Women...

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