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Marie de Sevigne: True friendship is...

Marie de Sevigne: True friendship is...

True friendship is never serene.

Source: 10 Sep 1671, Letters of Madame de Sevigne...

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Agnes Repplier: It is impossible...

Agnes Repplier: It is impossible...

It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the...

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Phyllis Battelle: A reporter discovers,...

Phyllis Battelle: A reporter discovers,...

A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive...

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Adela Rogers St Johns: There is so...

Adela Rogers St Johns: There is so...

There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.

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Meg Greenfield: The greatest harm...

Meg Greenfield: The greatest harm...

The greatest harm of all the gore on the tube is that it may dull our response to the real...

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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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Susan Sontag: AIDS occupies such...

Susan Sontag: AIDS occupies such...

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: There is the...

Barbara Ehrenreich: There is the...

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of...

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Peggy Noonan: TV gives everyone...

Peggy Noonan: TV gives everyone...

TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.

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Carolyn Heilbrun: That's the point...

Carolyn Heilbrun: That's the point...

That's the point of quotations, you know: one can use another's words to be insulting.

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Liz Carpenter: I have worked...

Liz Carpenter: I have worked...

I have worked all my life, wanted to work all my life, needed to work all my life.

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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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Ellen Key: Corporal punishment is...

Ellen Key: Corporal punishment is...

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides....

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Dorothy Thompson: There is nothing...

Dorothy Thompson: There is nothing...

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the...

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Gretel Ehrlich: Leaves are verbs...

Gretel Ehrlich: Leaves are verbs...

Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.

Source: The Solace of Open Spaces,...

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Marjorie Holmes: Man is the...

Marjorie Holmes: Man is the...

Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.

Source: In...

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Maggie Kuhn: Old age is...

Maggie Kuhn: Old age is...

Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and...

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Coretta Scott King: There is a...

Coretta Scott King: There is a...

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be...

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Rose Kennedy: I've had an...

Rose Kennedy: I've had an...

I've had an exciting life; I married for love and got a little money along with it.

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Patricia Fripp: People who concentrate...

Patricia Fripp: People who concentrate...

People who concentrate on giving good service always get more personal satisfaction as well as better business. How...

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