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Nancy Mitford: I love children,...

Nancy Mitford: I love children,...

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

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Shirley Hazzard: Do you ever...

Shirley Hazzard: Do you ever...

Do you ever notice, asked Luisa, how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing...

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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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Martha Carey Thomas: One thing I...

Martha Carey Thomas: One thing I...

One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man's if study and learning...

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Marjorie Rosen: Movies have always...

Marjorie Rosen: Movies have always...

Movies have always been a form of popular culture that altered the way women looked at the world and reflected how men...

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Beatrix Potter: Thank goodness I...

Beatrix Potter: Thank goodness I...

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the...

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Gertrude Stein: Americans are very...

Gertrude Stein: Americans are very...

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the...

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Gertrude Stein: But then of...

Gertrude Stein: But then of...

But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

Source: Quoted...

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Erica Jong: Growing up female...

Erica Jong: Growing up female...

Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice...

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Erica Jong: Writing is one...

Erica Jong: Writing is one...

Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really...

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Madeleine L'Engle: It's a good...

Madeleine L'Engle: It's a good...

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock...

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Louisa May Alcott: It takes very...

Louisa May Alcott: It takes very...

It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real...

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Mary Webb: When you dwell...

Mary Webb: When you dwell...

When you dwell in a house you mislike, you will look out of a window a deal more than those that are content with...

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Marguerite Duras: Men like women...

Marguerite Duras: Men like women...

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

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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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Anne Tyler: My family can...

Anne Tyler: My family can...

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

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Janet Frame: [V]ery often the...

Janet Frame: [V]ery often the...

[V]ery often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance. . . .

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Anne Bronte: There is always...

Anne Bronte: There is always...

There is always a but in this imperfect world.

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall,...

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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: Well, isn't Bohemia...

Djuna Barnes: Well, isn't Bohemia...

Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else -- and must not a waiter be a little less than...

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