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Hillary Rodham Clinton: The challenge is...

Hillary Rodham Clinton: The challenge is...

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible,...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: You gain strength,...

Eleanor Roosevelt: You gain strength,...

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You...

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Jill Ruckelshaus: The family is...

Jill Ruckelshaus: The family is...

The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.

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Barbara Mikulski: I truly believe...

Barbara Mikulski: I truly believe...

I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for...

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Geraldine Ferraro: I'd call it...

Geraldine Ferraro: I'd call it...

I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad...

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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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Mary McCarthy: There are no...

Mary McCarthy: There are no...

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without...

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Marguerite Yourcenar: I have never...

Marguerite Yourcenar: I have never...

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.

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Enid Bagnold: The theatre is...

Enid Bagnold: The theatre is...

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second...

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Elizabeth Bowen: No object is...

Elizabeth Bowen: No object is...

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

Source: The House in Paris,...

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Elizabeth Bowen: All your youth...

Elizabeth Bowen: All your youth...

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Fatalism is the...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Fatalism is the...

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Erica Jong: Fame means millions...

Erica Jong: Fame means millions...

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

Source:
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Katherine Paterson: To fear is...

Katherine Paterson: To fear is...

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

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Margery Allingham: When one kicks...

Margery Allingham: When one kicks...

When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on...

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Janet Frame: It would be...

Janet Frame: It would be...

It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do...

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Jean Stafford: Indeed, the sole...

Jean Stafford: Indeed, the sole...

Indeed, the sole criticism of him was that he prolonged beyond the point of decency, his look of nuptial rapture and...

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Toni Cade Bambara: [W]riting is a...

Toni Cade Bambara: [W]riting is a...

[W]riting is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names...

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Djuna Barnes: She wanted to...

Djuna Barnes: She wanted to...

She wanted to be the reason for everything and so she was the cause of nothing.

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Isak Dinesen: But the trouble...

Isak Dinesen: But the trouble...

But the trouble is not as you think now, that we have put up obstacles too high for you to jump . . . . It is that we...

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