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Sara Jeannette Duncan: Clothes and courage...

Sara Jeannette Duncan: Clothes and courage...

Clothes and courage have much to do with each other.

Source: In Barnes & Noble Book...

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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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Rebecca West: Journalism - an...

Rebecca West: Journalism - an...

Journalism - an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

Source: The New...

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Marge Piercy: Life is the...

Marge Piercy: Life is the...

Life is the first gift, love the second, and understanding the third.

Source: In...

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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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Dorothea Brande: Envisioning the end...

Dorothea Brande: Envisioning the end...

Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Christiane Collange: The majority of...

Christiane Collange: The majority of...

The majority of women commit the strategic error of attempting to excel in a maximum of fields in order to satisfy all...

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Jean Kerr: You don't seem...

Jean Kerr: You don't seem...

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy....

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Janet Flanner: The German passion...

Janet Flanner: The German passion...

The German passion for bureaucracy -- for written and signal forms . . . to move about, to work, to exist -- is like a...

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Erma Bombeck: The bad times...

Erma Bombeck: The bad times...

The bad times I can handle. It's the good times that drive me crazy. When is the other shoe going to...

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Clara McBride Hale: I'm not an...

Clara McBride Hale: I'm not an...

I'm not an American hero. I'm a person who loves children.

Source: In Words of...

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Babe Didrikson Zaharias: A couple of...

Babe Didrikson Zaharias: A couple of...

A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds.

Source: In The Golfer's...

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Carry Nation: Oh, I tell...

Carry Nation: Oh, I tell...

Oh, I tell you, ladies, you never know what joy it gives you to start out to smash a...

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Sylvia Pankhurst: Love and freedom...

Sylvia Pankhurst: Love and freedom...

Love and freedom are vital to the creation and upbringing of a child.

Source:...

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Ellen Key: Corporal punishment is...

Ellen Key: Corporal punishment is...

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides....

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Brenda Ueland: Know that it...

Brenda Ueland: Know that it...

Know that it is good to work. Work with love, and think of liking it when you do it. It is easy and interesting. It is...

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Marjorie Holmes: Man is the...

Marjorie Holmes: Man is the...

Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.

Source: In...

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Grace Paley: I often see...

Grace Paley: I often see...

I often see through things right to the apparition itself.

Source: Enormous Changes...

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Hortense Calisher: A happy childhood...

Hortense Calisher: A happy childhood...

A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a...

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Anya Seton: Truth is naturally...

Anya Seton: Truth is naturally...

Truth is naturally universal, said Akananda, and shines into many different windows, though some of them are...

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