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Jane Fonda: Women are not...

Jane Fonda: Women are not...

Women are not forgiven for aging. Bob Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age...

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Rita Rudner: My husband gave...

Rita Rudner: My husband gave...

My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want...

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Alice Childress: Like snowflakes, the...

Alice Childress: Like snowflakes, the...

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and...

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Alice Childress: Writers are encouraged...

Alice Childress: Writers are encouraged...

Writers are encouraged to keep 'em laughing and complain with good humor in order to win allies. The joke is always on...

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Sara Teasdale: When I can...

Sara Teasdale: When I can...

When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And...

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Zora Neale Hurston: There is no...

Zora Neale Hurston: There is no...

There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's...

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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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Sarah Josepha Hale: There is no...

Sarah Josepha Hale: There is no...

There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of...

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Charlotte Bronte: Look twice before...

Charlotte Bronte: Look twice before...

Look twice before you leap.

Source: Shirley, ch. 9, 1849.
-- Charlotte Bronte,...

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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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Vita Sackville-West: It is necessary...

Vita Sackville-West: It is necessary...

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly...

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Ethel Watts Mumford: Knowledge is power,...

Ethel Watts Mumford: Knowledge is power,...

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

Source: In Readers'...

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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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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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Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Nothing will do...

Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Nothing will do...

Nothing will do me any good unless I learn to control this body of mine.

Source: In...

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Letitia Landon: Love is a...

Letitia Landon: Love is a...

Love is a pearl of purest hue,
But stormy waves are round it;
And dearly may a woman rue,
The hour that...

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Diane Ackerman: A poem records...

Diane Ackerman: A poem records...

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at...

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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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Edith Evans: . . ....

Edith Evans: . . ....

. . . actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what...

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Lily Tomlin: If truth is...

Lily Tomlin: If truth is...

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Source: In...

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