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Mary Pickford: I was forced...

Mary Pickford: I was forced...

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young...

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Elizabeth Ashley: I see the...

Elizabeth Ashley: I see the...

I see the mind of the 5-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and...

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Michelle Pfeiffer: I'm a perfectionist,...

Michelle Pfeiffer: I'm a perfectionist,...

I'm a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad -- and other people, too. At the same time, I think that's one of the...

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Dorothy Gish: Do you know...

Dorothy Gish: Do you know...

Do you know New York stifles me? It makes me so unhappy. There are so many things I want, and so many things I...

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Helen Rowland: A good woman...

Helen Rowland: A good woman...

A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.

Source: In...

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Grace Paley: I believe in...

Grace Paley: I believe in...

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: In sci-fi convention,...

Barbara Ehrenreich: In sci-fi convention,...

In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the...

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Suzanne LaFollette: Most people, no...

Suzanne LaFollette: Most people, no...

Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application...

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Brenda Ueland: The only good...

Brenda Ueland: The only good...

The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or...

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Dora Russell: We have heeded...

Dora Russell: We have heeded...

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love...

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Peace Pilgrim: To attain inner...

Peace Pilgrim: To attain inner...

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life --...

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Kate Millett: Because of our...

Kate Millett: Because of our...

Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly...

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Margaret Anderson: It is rarely...

Margaret Anderson: It is rarely...

It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.

Source: In...

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Agnes Repplier: In the stress...

Agnes Repplier: In the stress...

In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that...

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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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Judith Crist: When we as...

Judith Crist: When we as...

When we as youngsters, would accuse our mother of picking on us her wise reply was, All you'll get from strangers is...

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Jessica Mitford: In childbirth, as...

Jessica Mitford: In childbirth, as...

In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle...

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Phyllis Battelle: Fame is an...

Phyllis Battelle: Fame is an...

Fame is an ego-building but back-breaking state of being which -- rather like love -- is most comfortable in private,...

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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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Joan Konner: Procrastination gives you...

Joan Konner: Procrastination gives you...

Procrastination gives you something to look forward to.

Source: In Webster's...

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