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Laura Ingalls Wilder: I am beginning...

Laura Ingalls Wilder: I am beginning...

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after...

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Kate Chopin: The voice of...

Kate Chopin: The voice of...

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close...

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Susan Sontag: Any important disease...

Susan Sontag: Any important disease...

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in...

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher: Like other potentates...

Dorothy Canfield Fisher: Like other potentates...

Like other potentates with a long habit of arbitrary authority, she covered her perplexity with a smart show of...

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Rebecca West: Everyone realizes that...

Rebecca West: Everyone realizes that...

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized...

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Florence Griffith Joyner: I like being...

Florence Griffith Joyner: I like being...

I like being unconventional.

Source:
-- Florence Griffith Joyner, (Dec 21...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: In sci-fi convention,...

Barbara Ehrenreich: In sci-fi convention,...

In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the...

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Carolyn Heilbrun: That's the point...

Carolyn Heilbrun: That's the point...

That's the point of quotations, you know: one can use another's words to be insulting.

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Katharine Whitehorn: I wouldn't say...

Katharine Whitehorn: I wouldn't say...

I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling...

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Gail Sheehy: We hear the...

Gail Sheehy: We hear the...

We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any...

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Simone de Beauvoir: In order for...

Simone de Beauvoir: In order for...

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing,...

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Liz Carpenter: I learned in...

Liz Carpenter: I learned in...

I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.

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Gail Sheehy: All changes, even...

Gail Sheehy: All changes, even...

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must...

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Sheila Ballantyne: You can always...

Sheila Ballantyne: You can always...

You can always trust information given you by people who are crazy; they have an access to truth not available through...

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Anne Frank: Whoever is happy...

Anne Frank: Whoever is happy...

Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl,...

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Margaret Anderson: Intellectuals are too...

Margaret Anderson: Intellectuals are too...

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.

Source: The Strange Necessity, pt. 1,...

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Jean Kerr: I make mistakes;...

Jean Kerr: I make mistakes;...

I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.

Source: The Snake Has All the...

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Ellen Goodman: Values are not...

Ellen Goodman: Values are not...

Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.

Source: In Reader's...

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Adela Rogers St Johns: God made man,...

Adela Rogers St Johns: God made man,...

God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.

Source:...

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Janet Flanner: She was built...

Janet Flanner: She was built...

She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.

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