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Charlotte Bronte: Prejudices, it is...

Charlotte Bronte: Prejudices, it is...

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or...

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Charlotte Bronte: The soul, fortunately,...

Charlotte Bronte: The soul, fortunately,...

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter -- in the...

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Denise Levertov: One of the...

Denise Levertov: One of the...

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as...

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Georgia Douglas Johnson: Rise with the...

Georgia Douglas Johnson: Rise with the...

Rise with the hour for which you were made.

Source: Hope.
-- Georgia Douglas...

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Anne Bradstreet: There is no...

Anne Bradstreet: There is no...

There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evill that we feel, or fear, but we...

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Elizabeth Arden: Death not merely...

Elizabeth Arden: Death not merely...

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which...

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Barbra Streisand: I was a...

Barbra Streisand: I was a...

I was a personality before I became a person. I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy...

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Joan Baez: Seeing you sleeping...

Joan Baez: Seeing you sleeping...

Seeing you sleeping peacefully on your back among your stuffed ducks, bears and basset hounds, would remind me that no...

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Hedda Hopper: I can wear...

Hedda Hopper: I can wear...

I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece.

Source:...

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Alice Childress: I continue to...

Alice Childress: I continue to...

I continue to create because writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale...

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Barbra Streisand: What does it...

Barbra Streisand: What does it...

What does it mean when people applaud? . . . Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of...

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Julie Andrews: All love shifts...

Julie Andrews: All love shifts...

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the...

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Bessie Smith: No time to...

Bessie Smith: No time to...

No time to marry, no time to settle down;
I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin'...

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Lucille Ball: I regret the...

Lucille Ball: I regret the...

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no...

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Joan Baez: The point on...

Joan Baez: The point on...

The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer...

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Jane Wagner: I made some...

Jane Wagner: I made some...

I made some studies, and reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small...

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Patti Smith: As far as...

Patti Smith: As far as...

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Joan Didion: Writers are always...

Joan Didion: Writers are always...

Writers are always selling somebody out.

Source: Slouching Towards Bethlehem,...

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Betty Hutton: I think things...

Betty Hutton: I think things...

I think things are going to go right for me again. I'm not old. I'm old enough, but I photograph young, thank God, and...

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Fanny Brice: When love is...

Fanny Brice: When love is...

When love is out of your life, you're through in a way. Because while it is there it's like a motor that's going, you...

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