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Elizabeth Coatsworth: Outwardly I am...

Elizabeth Coatsworth: Outwardly I am...

Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each...

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Joanna Baillie: I wish I...

Joanna Baillie: I wish I...

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about...

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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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Ilka Chase: Among famous traitors...

Ilka Chase: Among famous traitors...

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

Source: The Varied...

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Gypsy Rose Lee: She is descended...

Gypsy Rose Lee: She is descended...

She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to.

Source: In An...

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Rita Rudner: My husband gave...

Rita Rudner: My husband gave...

My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want...

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Amie Comeaux: I'm moving out<br>Me...

Amie Comeaux: I'm moving out
Me...

I'm moving out
Me and my best friend Louise got it all figured out
She's got the car and I've got the...

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Betty Carter: After me there...

Betty Carter: After me there...

After me there are no more jazz singers . . . It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin' it to me in my...

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Joan Didion: Writers are always...

Joan Didion: Writers are always...

Writers are always selling somebody out.

Source: Slouching Towards Bethlehem,...

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Roseanne Barr: I know how...

Roseanne Barr: I know how...

I know how to do anything -- I'm a mom.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Phylicia Rashad: When you're free...

Phylicia Rashad: When you're free...

When you're free from the idea of doership then something else within you emerges. It is...

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Linda Ronstadt: You have to...

Linda Ronstadt: You have to...

You have to erect a fence and say OK, scale this.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Ruth Etting: He just play...

Ruth Etting: He just play...

He just play chords
Like nobody can
They call him Sam
The old accordian man.


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Ethel Merman: I can hold...

Ethel Merman: I can hold...

I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.

Source: In Webster's...

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Diana Ross: If I have...

Diana Ross: If I have...

If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.

Source: Secrets of a...

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Mary Antin: My friendships, my...

Mary Antin: My friendships, my...

My friendships, my advantages and disadvantages, my gifts, my habits, my ambitions these were the materials out of...

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Catherine the Great: Power without a...

Catherine the Great: Power without a...

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Louise Erdrich: You know, some...

Louise Erdrich: You know, some...

You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time,...

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Zora Neale Hurston: No matter how...

Zora Neale Hurston: No matter how...

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

Source: In...

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Stevie Smith: Marred pleasure's best,...

Stevie Smith: Marred pleasure's best,...

Marred pleasure's best, shadow makes the sun strong.

Source: The Queen and the...

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