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Joan Baez: Only you and...

Joan Baez: Only you and...

Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in...

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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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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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Mari Evans: I am a...

Mari Evans: I am a...

I am a black woman
the music of my song
some sweet arpeggio of tears
is written in a minor key
and...

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Jessie Redmon Fauset: The white world...

Jessie Redmon Fauset: The white world...

The white world is feverishly anxious to know of our thoughts, our hopes, our dreams. Organization is our strongest...

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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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Anna Letitia Barbauld: While Genius was...

Anna Letitia Barbauld: While Genius was...

While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named...

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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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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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Edna St Vincent Millay: I find it's...

Edna St Vincent Millay: I find it's...

I find it's as hard to live down an early triumph as an early indiscretion.

Source:...

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Louise Erdrich: I was in...

Louise Erdrich: I was in...

I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.

Source: In...

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Sarah Josepha Hale: There is no...

Sarah Josepha Hale: There is no...

There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of...

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Vita Sackville-West: Women, like men,...

Vita Sackville-West: Women, like men,...

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of...

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Denise Levertov: One of the...

Denise Levertov: One of the...

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as...

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Stevie Smith: Marred pleasure's best,...

Stevie Smith: Marred pleasure's best,...

Marred pleasure's best, shadow makes the sun strong.

Source: The Queen and the...

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Georgia Douglas Johnson: Your world is...

Georgia Douglas Johnson: Your world is...

Your world is as big as you make it.

Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed. Janet...

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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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Diane Arbus: You see someone...

Diane Arbus: You see someone...

You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A concept is...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A concept is...

A concept is stronger than a fact.

Source: Human Work, 1904.
-- Charlotte...

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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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