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Hannah More: Goals help you...

Hannah More: Goals help you...

Goals help you overcome short-term problems.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Suzanne Curchod Necker: Too many wish...

Suzanne Curchod Necker: Too many wish...

Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Suzanne Curchod Necker: It is no...

Suzanne Curchod Necker: It is no...

It is no virtue to bear calamities if we do not feel them.

Source: In The Last Word...

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Gretel Ehrlich: There is nothing...

Gretel Ehrlich: There is nothing...

There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both morality and...

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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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Marge Piercy: All women hustle....

Marge Piercy: All women hustle....

All women hustle. Women watch faces, voices, gestures, moods . . . She's the person who has to survive through...

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Marsha Sinetar: Life's up and...

Marsha Sinetar: Life's up and...

Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as...

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Kathryn Hulme: Never forget that...

Kathryn Hulme: Never forget that...

Never forget that [God] tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.

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Sharon Stone: We Barbie dolls...

Sharon Stone: We Barbie dolls...

We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Sharon Stone: The philosophy of...

Sharon Stone: The philosophy of...

The philosophy of being able as a woman to decide what you want and being unashamed about making it happen was new....

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Edith Evans: A successful artist...

Edith Evans: A successful artist...

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until...

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Katharine Hepburn: Acting is the...

Katharine Hepburn: Acting is the...

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Tallulah Bankhead: I've tried several...

Tallulah Bankhead: I've tried several...

I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic and the others give me a stiff...

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Whoopi Goldberg: I am an...

Whoopi Goldberg: I am an...

I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Rosalind Russell: Success is a...

Rosalind Russell: Success is a...

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

Source: Life Is a...

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Elizabeth Ashley: I see the...

Elizabeth Ashley: I see the...

I see the mind of the 5-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and...

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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.

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Kim Cattrall: I think the...

Kim Cattrall: I think the...

I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a...

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Francesca Annis: It's funny, this...

Francesca Annis: It's funny, this...

It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself...

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Fannie Hurst: Some people think...

Fannie Hurst: Some people think...

Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.

Source:...

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