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Elizabeth II: I have to...

Elizabeth II: I have to...

I have to be seen to be believed.

Source: In The Wall Street Journal, 21 Apr...

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Ninon de Lenclos: A sensible woman...

Ninon de Lenclos: A sensible woman...

A sensible woman should be guided by her bead when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a...

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Ninon de Lenclos: Feminine virtue is...

Ninon de Lenclos: Feminine virtue is...

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

Source: c. 1660,...

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Nancy Astor: From the American...

Nancy Astor: From the American...

From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema...

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Pearl Buck: Because psychologists have...

Pearl Buck: Because psychologists have...

Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature...

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Elizabeth Bowen: Meeting people unlike...

Elizabeth Bowen: Meeting people unlike...

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is...

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Annie Dillard: I woke at...

Annie Dillard: I woke at...

I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than...

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Annie Dillard: No; we have...

Annie Dillard: No; we have...

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is...

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Gertrude Stein: Americans are very...

Gertrude Stein: Americans are very...

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Time engraves our...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Time engraves our...

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Source: Quoted in:...

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Agatha Christie: The popular idea...

Agatha Christie: The popular idea...

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of...

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Agatha Christie: Most successes are...

Agatha Christie: Most successes are...

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by...

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Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: Blessed are those...

Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: Blessed are those...

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.

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Maria Edgeworth: The human heart,...

Maria Edgeworth: The human heart,...

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

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Madeleine L'Engle: I believe that...

Madeleine L'Engle: I believe that...

I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist...

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Margaret Mitchell: My pet, the...

Margaret Mitchell: My pet, the...

My pet, the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own...

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Jane Austen: One does not...

Jane Austen: One does not...

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but...

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Jane Rule: I had never...

Jane Rule: I had never...

I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't...

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Marguerite Duras: For that's what...

Marguerite Duras: For that's what...

For that's what a woman, a mother wants -- to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for...

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Helen Rowland: A good woman...

Helen Rowland: A good woman...

A good woman inspires a man; a brilliant woman interests him; a beautiful woman fascinates him; and a sympathetic...

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