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Joan Collins: I've never yet...

Joan Collins: I've never yet...

I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a...

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Elizabeth Bishop: All my life...

Elizabeth Bishop: All my life...

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like [the] sandpiper -- just running down the edges of different...

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Stevie Smith: The Englishwoman is...

Stevie Smith: The Englishwoman is...

The Englishwoman is so refined
She has no bosom and no behind.


Source: This...

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Emma Lazarus: Jews are the...

Emma Lazarus: Jews are the...

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

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Elizabeth Coatsworth: Outwardly I am...

Elizabeth Coatsworth: Outwardly I am...

Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each...

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox: It has ever...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: It has ever...

It has ever been since time began,
And ever will be, till time lose breath,
That love is a mood -- no more -- to...

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Diane Arbus: I always thought...

Diane Arbus: I always thought...

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do -- that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I...

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Diane Arbus: Most people go...

Diane Arbus: Most people go...

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks are born with their trauma. They've...

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Joan Rivers: People say that...

Joan Rivers: People say that...

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key...

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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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Mahalia Jackson: Anybody that sings...

Mahalia Jackson: Anybody that sings...

Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.

Source: In Aretha...

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Josephine Baker: . . ....

Josephine Baker: . . ....

. . . I improvised, crazed by the music. . . . Even my teeth and eyes burned with fever. Each time I leaped I seemed...

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Alice Childress: Life is just...

Alice Childress: Life is just...

Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave -- and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the...

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Ethel Merman: I can never...

Ethel Merman: I can never...

I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd...

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Pearl Bailey: There are two...

Pearl Bailey: There are two...

There are two kinds of talents, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard....

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Joni Mitchell: Moons and Junes...

Joni Mitchell: Moons and Junes...

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels
The dizzy dancing way you feel
As every fairy tale comes real
I've looked...

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Catherine the Great: Power without a...

Catherine the Great: Power without a...

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Marguerite Duras: Men like women...

Marguerite Duras: Men like women...

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

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Judith Viorst: Brevity may be...

Judith Viorst: Brevity may be...

Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying I love you.

Source:...

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Gail Godwin: Some things arrive...

Gail Godwin: Some things arrive...

Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished...

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