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Rita Dove: Under adversity, under...

Rita Dove: Under adversity, under...

Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In colder to convey things...

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Mari Evans: I'm<br>gonna spread out<br>over...

Mari Evans: I'm
gonna spread out
over...

I'm
gonna spread out
over America
intrude
my proud blackness
all
over the...

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Alice Dunbar-Nelson: It's punishment to...

Alice Dunbar-Nelson: It's punishment to...

It's punishment to be compelled to do what one doesn't wish.

Source: Give Us Each...

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Muriel Rukeyser: However confused the...

Muriel Rukeyser: However confused the...

However confused the scene of our life appears,
however torn we may be who now do face that scene,
it can be...

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Jessie Redmon Fauset: The remarkable thing...

Jessie Redmon Fauset: The remarkable thing...

The remarkable thing about this gift of ours is that it has its rise, I am convinced, in the very woes which beset us...

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Ntozake Shange: Our society allows...

Ntozake Shange: Our society allows...

Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's...

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Anne Spencer: Is any prophet...

Anne Spencer: Is any prophet...

Is any prophet come to teach a new thing
Now in a more apt time?


Source: Before...

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Susan Griffin: A story is...

Susan Griffin: A story is...

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox: No question is...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: No question is...

No question is ever settled
Until it is settled right.


Source: Settle the...

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Marilyn Monroe: I have too...

Marilyn Monroe: I have too...

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife . . . . I guess I am a fantasy.

Source:...

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Ingrid Bergman: I have no...

Ingrid Bergman: I have no...

I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to...

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Sophia Loren: Sex appeal is...

Sophia Loren: Sex appeal is...

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've...

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Marjorie Main: Personally, I wouldn't...

Marjorie Main: Personally, I wouldn't...

Personally, I wouldn't marry a man who proposed to me over an invention.

Source:...

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Meryl Streep: Integrate what you...

Meryl Streep: Integrate what you...

Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of...

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Dorothy Gish: Do you know...

Dorothy Gish: Do you know...

Do you know New York stifles me? It makes me so unhappy. There are so many things I want, and so many things I...

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Sharon Stone: At first it...

Sharon Stone: At first it...

At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a...

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Sharon Stone: A lot of...

Sharon Stone: A lot of...

A lot of people think that fame is the Band-Aid that cures their ills. I'm no kid, and I knew long before I got famous...

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Lauren Bacall: In Hollywood, an...

Lauren Bacall: In Hollywood, an...

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of...

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Lauren Bacall: When a woman...

Lauren Bacall: When a woman...

When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't...

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Jane Sherwood Ace: I'm a ragged...

Jane Sherwood Ace: I'm a ragged...

I'm a ragged individualist.

Source: Easy Aces Radio Show, 1928-1945; in The Fine...

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