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Barbara Ehrenreich: The media have...

Barbara Ehrenreich: The media have...

The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of...

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Simone de Beauvoir: Defending the truth...

Simone de Beauvoir: Defending the truth...

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in...

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Anna Jameson: What we truly...

Anna Jameson: What we truly...

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the...

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Anita Brookner: There are moments...

Anita Brookner: There are moments...

There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on...

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Kate Chopin: To be an...

Kate Chopin: To be an...

To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts -- absolute gifts -- which have been acquired by one's own...

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Susan Sontag: A family's photograph...

Susan Sontag: A family's photograph...

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family -- and, often, is all that remains of...

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Susan Sontag: Camp is a...

Susan Sontag: Camp is a...

Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style but a particular style. It is the love of the...

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Irene Thomas: I had a...

Irene Thomas: I had a...

I had a friend with a BYRon (297) telephone number; it's the old London exchanges, killed by the Postmaster...

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Delphine de Girardin: Instinct is the...

Delphine de Girardin: Instinct is the...

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Source: In Reader's Digest, 1 Oct 1972.
--...

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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: Writers seldom choose...

Catherine Drinker Bowen: Writers seldom choose...

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never...

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Marilyn French: Fear is a...

Marilyn French: Fear is a...

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore...

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Peggy Noonan: Wit penetrates; humor...

Peggy Noonan: Wit penetrates; humor...

Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good...

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Joanna Baillie: Busy work brings...

Joanna Baillie: Busy work brings...

Busy work brings after ease;
Ease brings sport and sport brings rest;
For young and old, of all degrees,
The...

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Rita Dove: Under adversity, under...

Rita Dove: Under adversity, under...

Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In colder to convey things...

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Letitia Landon: No thoroughly occupied...

Letitia Landon: No thoroughly occupied...

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Diane Ackerman: We live on...

Diane Ackerman: We live on...

We live on the leash of our senses.

Source: A Natural History of the Senses,...

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox: The splendid discontent...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: The splendid discontent...

The splendid discontent of God
With chaos made the world.


Source: Discontent,...

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Laugh, and the...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Laugh, and the...

Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its...

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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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