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Hermione Gingold: To call him...

Hermione Gingold: To call him...

To call him a dog hardly seems to do him justice, though inasmuch as he had four legs, a tail, and barked, I admit he...

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Simone Signoret: Chains do not...

Simone Signoret: Chains do not...

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the...

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Kathy Ireland: Beauty comes...

Kathy Ireland: Beauty comes...

Beauty comes in all ages, colors, shapes, and forms. God never makes junk

Source:...

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Zora Neale Hurston: When a man...

Zora Neale Hurston: When a man...

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.

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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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Gwendolyn Brooks: Reading is important...

Gwendolyn Brooks: Reading is important...

Reading is important -- read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

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Florida Scott-Maxwell: You need to...

Florida Scott-Maxwell: You need to...

You need to claim the events in your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done,...

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Laura Ingalls Wilder: I believe we...

Laura Ingalls Wilder: I believe we...

I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and...

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Eileen Caddy: Dwell not on...

Eileen Caddy: Dwell not on...

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do...

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Susan Sontag: The best emotions...

Susan Sontag: The best emotions...

The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. . . . The least energizing emotion to write out of is...

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Amelia Barr: Let me tell...

Amelia Barr: Let me tell...

Let me tell thee, time is a very precious gift of God; so precious that He only gives it to us moment by moment. He...

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Judith Martin: If written directions...

Judith Martin: If written directions...

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities...

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Harriet Tubman: There was one...

Harriet Tubman: There was one...

There was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for...

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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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Delphine de Girardin: Good taste is...

Delphine de Girardin: Good taste is...

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or...

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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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Julie Burchill: It has been...

Julie Burchill: It has been...

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out...

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Anya Seton: Truth is naturally...

Anya Seton: Truth is naturally...

Truth is naturally universal, said Akananda, and shines into many different windows, though some of them are...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: When a woman...

Minna Thomas Antrim: When a woman...

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: The morals of...

Minna Thomas Antrim: The morals of...

The morals of today are the immorals of yesterday, the creeds of tomorrow.

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