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Kim Cattrall: In film, the...

Kim Cattrall: In film, the...

In film, the possibilities are greater. You can go beyond the fourth wall. You can go to these incredible locations...

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Jane Fonda: You can do...

Jane Fonda: You can do...

You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast...

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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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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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Coco Chanel: Success is often...

Coco Chanel: Success is often...

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

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Coco Chanel: In order to...

Coco Chanel: In order to...

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

Source: Coco Chanel: Her...

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Marian Anderson: Prayer begins where...

Marian Anderson: Prayer begins where...

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Ruth Etting: It pays to...

Ruth Etting: It pays to...

It pays to advertise
That's what they say,
and so I'll advertise my heart.


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Rita Dove: Poetry is language...

Rita Dove: Poetry is language...

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

Source: In The Quotable...

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Caroline Sheridan Norton: We have been...

Caroline Sheridan Norton: We have been...

We have been friends together
In sunshine and in shade.


Source: We have been...

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Anna Letitia Barbauld: Forgotten rimes, and...

Anna Letitia Barbauld: Forgotten rimes, and...

Forgotten rimes, and college themes,
Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes;
A mass of heterogeneous matter.
A...

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Clara McBride Hale: Until I die,...

Clara McBride Hale: Until I die,...

Until I die, I'm going to keep doing. My people need me. They need somebody that's not taking from them and is...

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Marian Wright Edelman: Education is a...

Marian Wright Edelman: Education is a...

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

Source: c. 1988.
--...

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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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Ernestine L Rose: . . ....

Ernestine L Rose: . . ....

. . . the reward of springing from the consciousness of right, of endeavoring to benefit unborn...

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Emma Goldman: Methods and means...

Emma Goldman: Methods and means...

Methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

Source: My Further...

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Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua: The world I...

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua: The world I...

The world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not give me.

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Catherine Drinker Bowen: Chamber music --...

Catherine Drinker Bowen: Chamber music --...

Chamber music -- a conversation between friends.

Source: In The Last Word - A...

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Christina Baldwin: Spiritual love is...

Christina Baldwin: Spiritual love is...

Spiritual love is a position of standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the...

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Sara Jeannette Duncan: One loses many...

Sara Jeannette Duncan: One loses many...

One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

Source: In Words of Women...

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