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Janet Erskine Stuart: The great thing...

Janet Erskine Stuart: The great thing...

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got...

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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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Stevie Smith: The Englishwoman is...

Stevie Smith: The Englishwoman is...

The Englishwoman is so refined
She has no bosom and no behind.


Source: This...

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Betty Smith: I wrote about...

Betty Smith: I wrote about...

I wrote about people who liked, fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in...

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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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Pearl Buck: I am comforted...

Pearl Buck: I am comforted...

I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place...

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Flannery O'Connor: Anybody who has...

Flannery O'Connor: Anybody who has...

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his...

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Natalia Ginzburg: Children should be...

Natalia Ginzburg: Children should be...

Children should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to...

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Annie Dillard: I woke in...

Annie Dillard: I woke in...

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Why grab possessions...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Why grab possessions...

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise...

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Vicki Baum: You don't get...

Vicki Baum: You don't get...

You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.

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Bernadette Devlin: To gain that...

Bernadette Devlin: To gain that...

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

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Geraldine Ferraro: I'd call it...

Geraldine Ferraro: I'd call it...

I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad...

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Queen Victoria: Men never think,...

Queen Victoria: Men never think,...

Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will...

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Ninon de Lenclos: Words really flattering...

Ninon de Lenclos: Words really flattering...

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us...

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Nancy Astor: From the American...

Nancy Astor: From the American...

From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema...

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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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Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: Of all the...

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: Of all the...

Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to...

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Mary Catherine Bateson: Sharing is sometimes...

Mary Catherine Bateson: Sharing is sometimes...

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Freda Adler: It is not...

Freda Adler: It is not...

It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still...

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