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Catherine Drinker Bowen: Chamber music --...

Catherine Drinker Bowen: Chamber music --...

Chamber music -- a conversation between friends.

Source: In The Last Word - A...

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Miriam Beard: Certainly, travel is...

Miriam Beard: Certainly, travel is...

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of...

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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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Barbara Ehrenreich: The discovery of...

Barbara Ehrenreich: The discovery of...

The discovery of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the discovery of America almost 500 years...

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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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Minna Thomas Antrim: Enthusiasms, like stimulants,...

Minna Thomas Antrim: Enthusiasms, like stimulants,...

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.

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Minna Thomas Antrim: Experience is a...

Minna Thomas Antrim: Experience is a...

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

Source: Naked Truth...

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Edna St Vincent Millay: God, I can...

Edna St Vincent Millay: God, I can...

God, I can push the grass apart
And lay my finger on Thy heart!


Source: In The...

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Charlotte Bronte: Prejudices, it is...

Charlotte Bronte: Prejudices, it is...

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or...

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Georgia Douglas Johnson: I've learned of...

Georgia Douglas Johnson: I've learned of...

I've learned of life this bitter truth
Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find...

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Jenny Joseph: I shall sit...

Jenny Joseph: I shall sit...

I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my...

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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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Minnie Maddern Fiske: The essence of...

Minnie Maddern Fiske: The essence of...

The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of...

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Michelle Pfeiffer: I like being...

Michelle Pfeiffer: I like being...

I like being prepared. When things are going on and I have to learn my lines at the last minute, I'm never quite...

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Maggie Smith: I've aged, Sidney....

Maggie Smith: I've aged, Sidney....

I've aged, Sidney. There are new lines in my face. I look like a brand-new, steel-belted radial...

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Julia Roberts: If all you...

Julia Roberts: If all you...

If all you have to offer is a look that is suppose to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a...

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Joan Rivers: I felt comedy...

Joan Rivers: I felt comedy...

I felt comedy ego beginning to grow, which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for...

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Joan Rivers: I have become...

Joan Rivers: I have become...

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or...

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Drew Barrymore: There's something liberating...

Drew Barrymore: There's something liberating...

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

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Joan Baez: Seeing you sleeping...

Joan Baez: Seeing you sleeping...

Seeing you sleeping peacefully on your back among your stuffed ducks, bears and basset hounds, would remind me that no...

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