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Alice Walker: Listen, God love...

Alice Walker: Listen, God love...

Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration...

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Jessamyn West: A broken bone...

Jessamyn West: A broken bone...

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Source: The...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Fatalism is the...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Fatalism is the...

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the evitable.

Source: In The Amazon of...

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Helene Deutsch: It is no...

Helene Deutsch: It is no...

It is no exaggeration to say that among all living creatures, only man, because of his prehensile appendages, is...

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Maria Montessori: The task of...

Maria Montessori: The task of...

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with...

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Gloria Naylor: It ain't really...

Gloria Naylor: It ain't really...

It ain't really what you'd call change. It's all happened before and it'll happen again with a different set of...

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Fay Weldon: The New Women!...

Fay Weldon: The New Women!...

The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself . . . .They are satiated by...

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Daphne DuMaurier: Writers should be...

Daphne DuMaurier: Writers should be...

Writers should be read -- but neither seen nor heard.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Anne Rice: The truth is,...

Anne Rice: The truth is,...

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly...

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Nancy Mitford: An aristocracy in...

Nancy Mitford: An aristocracy in...

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in...

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Barbara Kingsolver: Come to...

Barbara Kingsolver: Come to...

Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of...

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Toni Morrison: Her mind traveled...

Toni Morrison: Her mind traveled...

Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the...

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Toni Morrison: If there's a...

Toni Morrison: If there's a...

If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write...

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George Eliot: Tis God gives...

George Eliot: Tis God gives...

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without...

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Anne Bronte: But he that...

Anne Bronte: But he that...

But he that dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.


Source: The...

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Anne Bronte: I would not...

Anne Bronte: I would not...

I would not send a poor girl into the world, . . . ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and...

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Elizabeth Gaskell: People may flatter...

Elizabeth Gaskell: People may flatter...

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds,...

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Anne Tyler: I didn't really...

Anne Tyler: I didn't really...

I didn't really choose to be a writer; I more or less fell into it.

Source: A...

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Betty Ford: My makeup wasn't...

Betty Ford: My makeup wasn't...

My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I...

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June Singer: The first half...

June Singer: The first half...

The first half of life is spent mainly in finding out who we are through seeing ourselves in our interaction with...

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