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Susan Sontag: Any critic is...

Susan Sontag: Any critic is...

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of...

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Susan Sontag: American energy. ....

Susan Sontag: American energy. ....

American energy. . . is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural...

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Ellen Key: At every step...

Ellen Key: At every step...

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from...

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Peggy Noonan: You don't have...

Peggy Noonan: You don't have...

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.

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Virgilia Peterson: Were marriage no...

Virgilia Peterson: Were marriage no...

Were marriage no more than a convenient screen for sexuality, some less cumbersome and costly protection must have...

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Margaret Anderson: I have always...

Margaret Anderson: I have always...

I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep...

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Helen Lawrenson: [Their] uniformity of...

Helen Lawrenson: [Their] uniformity of...

[Their] uniformity of appearance is frequently a triumph of modern science, thanks to which they can be equipped with...

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Freya Stark: The great and...

Freya Stark: The great and...

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and...

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Jean Kerr: The average, healthy,...

Jean Kerr: The average, healthy,...

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain...

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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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Janet Flanner: Isadore [Duncan], who...

Janet Flanner: Isadore [Duncan], who...

Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a...

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Erma Bombeck: Anybody who watches...

Erma Bombeck: Anybody who watches...

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

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Shirley Conran: I make no...

Shirley Conran: I make no...

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if...

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Mary Ashton Livermore: For humanity has...

Mary Ashton Livermore: For humanity has...

For humanity has moved forward to an era when wrong and slavery are being displaced, and reason and justice are being...

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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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Peg Bracken: This wild emaciated...

Peg Bracken: This wild emaciated...

This wild emaciated look appeals to some women, though not to many men, who are seldom seen pinning up a Vogue...

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Natalia Ginzburg: When I write...

Natalia Ginzburg: When I write...

When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she...

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Ellen Glasgow: No matter how...

Ellen Glasgow: No matter how...

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless...

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Jean Rhys: Age seldom arrives...

Jean Rhys: Age seldom arrives...

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

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Alexandra Ripley: We're not home-and-hearth...

Alexandra Ripley: We're not home-and-hearth...

We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge,...

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