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Elizabeth Janeway: In this nadir...

Elizabeth Janeway: In this nadir...

In this nadir of poetic repute, when the only verse that most people read from one year's end to the next is what...

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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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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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Rebecca West: Any authentic work...

Rebecca West: Any authentic work...

Any authentic work of art must start as an argument between the artist and his audience.

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Peace Pilgrim: We can work...

Peace Pilgrim: We can work...

We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing...

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Mary Harris Mother Jones: We must stand...

Mary Harris Mother Jones: We must stand...

We must stand together; if we don't, there will be no victory for any one of us.

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Barbara Ehrenreich: There is the...

Barbara Ehrenreich: There is the...

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of...

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Florence King: Families composed of...

Florence King: Families composed of...

Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.

Source:...

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Peggy Noonan: Candor is a...

Peggy Noonan: Candor is a...

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

Source: In...

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Simone de Beauvoir: Change your life...

Simone de Beauvoir: Change your life...

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

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Alice Embree: Shortly after the...

Alice Embree: Shortly after the...

Shortly after the turn of the century, America marshalled her resources, contracted painfully, and gave birth to the...

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Carolyn Heilbrun: Quoting, like smoking,...

Carolyn Heilbrun: Quoting, like smoking,...

Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

Source: In The...

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Katharine Whitehorn: From a commercial...

Katharine Whitehorn: From a commercial...

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent...

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Gail Sheehy: Changes are not...

Gail Sheehy: Changes are not...

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary...

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Belva Lockwood: I know we...

Belva Lockwood: I know we...

I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation. If women...

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Helen Keller: Knowledge is happiness,...

Helen Keller: Knowledge is happiness,...

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge --broad, deep knowledge --is to know true ends from false, and lofty...

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Rose Kennedy: Birds sing after...

Rose Kennedy: Birds sing after...

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to...

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Martha Beck: The power to...

Martha Beck: The power to...

The power to bring me out of solitude or to push me back into it had never belonged to another person. It was mine and...

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Irene Thomas: It should be...

Irene Thomas: It should be...

It should be a very happy marriage - they are both so much in love with him.

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Sheilah Graham: That youthful sparkle...

Sheilah Graham: That youthful sparkle...

That youthful sparkle in his eyes is caused by his contact lenses, which he keeps highly...

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