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Colette Dowling: Here it was...

Colette Dowling: Here it was...

Here it was -- the Cinderella Complex. It used to hit girls of sixteen or seventeen, preventing them, often, from...

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Kathryn Hulme: Never forget that...

Kathryn Hulme: Never forget that...

Never forget that [God] tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.

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Marie de Sevigne: The desire to...

Marie de Sevigne: The desire to...

The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many...

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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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Helen Lawrenson: [Their] uniformity of...

Helen Lawrenson: [Their] uniformity of...

[Their] uniformity of appearance is frequently a triumph of modern science, thanks to which they can be equipped with...

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Judith Crist: In this era...

Judith Crist: In this era...

In this era of affluence and of permissiveness, we have, in all but cultural areas, bred a nation of overprivileged...

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Jane Bryant Quinn: The best real-estate...

Jane Bryant Quinn: The best real-estate...

The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties...

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Fran Lebowitz: Ask your child...

Fran Lebowitz: Ask your child...

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Source: Social...

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Jill Johnston: The inmates are...

Jill Johnston: The inmates are...

The inmates are ghosts whose dreams have been murdered.

Source: On Bellevue...

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Helen Keller: Never bend your...

Helen Keller: Never bend your...

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

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Kathleen Norris: Life is easier...

Kathleen Norris: Life is easier...

Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and...

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Anzia Yezierska: When I only...

Anzia Yezierska: When I only...

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high...

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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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Louisa May Alcott: Father asked us...

Louisa May Alcott: Father asked us...

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never...

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George Eliot: The scornful nostril...

George Eliot: The scornful nostril...

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of...

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George Eliot: The poverty of...

George Eliot: The poverty of...

The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in...

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Djuna Barnes: She wanted to...

Djuna Barnes: She wanted to...

She wanted to be the reason for everything and so she was the cause of nothing.

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Djuna Barnes: Life, the permission...

Djuna Barnes: Life, the permission...

Life, the permission to know death.

Source: Nightwood/ 1937
-- Djuna Barnes,...

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Djuna Barnes: We are beginning...

Djuna Barnes: We are beginning...

We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes...

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Isak Dinesen: God made the...

Isak Dinesen: God made the...

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

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