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Helen Gahagan Douglas: In trying to...

Helen Gahagan Douglas: In trying to...

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been...

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Mary Astor: A person without...

Mary Astor: A person without...

A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an...

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Sophia Loren: Sex appeal is...

Sophia Loren: Sex appeal is...

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've...

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Elizabeth Ashley: I see the...

Elizabeth Ashley: I see the...

I see the mind of the 5-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and...

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Lynn Fontanne: We can be...

Lynn Fontanne: We can be...

We can be bought, but we can't be bored.

Source: On offers from Hollywood,...

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Loretta Swit: The very first...

Loretta Swit: The very first...

The very first month I played it [Shirley Valentine] I felt like I was flying without a net. But once I realized that...

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Maggie Smith: I've aged, Sidney....

Maggie Smith: I've aged, Sidney....

I've aged, Sidney. There are new lines in my face. I look like a brand-new, steel-belted radial...

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Marjorie Main: Personally, I wouldn't...

Marjorie Main: Personally, I wouldn't...

Personally, I wouldn't marry a man who proposed to me over an invention.

Source:...

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Julia Roberts: If all you...

Julia Roberts: If all you...

If all you have to offer is a look that is suppose to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a...

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Joan Collins: The easiest way...

Joan Collins: The easiest way...

The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for...

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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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Audre Lorde: If I waited...

Audre Lorde: If I waited...

If I waited to be right before I spoke, I would be sending little cryptic messages on the Ouija board, complaints from...

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Mary Caroline Richards: We must be...

Mary Caroline Richards: We must be...

We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the winds of life blow through us, to be our breath, our...

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Edith Nesbitt: It is wonderful...

Edith Nesbitt: It is wonderful...

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

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Susan Griffin: A story is...

Susan Griffin: A story is...

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Gloria Swanson: All creative people...

Gloria Swanson: All creative people...

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

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Eleanor Robson Belmont: A woman in...

Eleanor Robson Belmont: A woman in...

A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in...

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Rita Dove: I prefer to...

Rita Dove: I prefer to...

I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives...

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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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Jessie Redmon Fauset: The remarkable thing...

Jessie Redmon Fauset: The remarkable thing...

The remarkable thing about this gift of ours is that it has its rise, I am convinced, in the very woes which beset us...

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