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Florence Griffith Joyner: I like being...

Florence Griffith Joyner: I like being...

I like being unconventional.

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-- Florence Griffith Joyner, (Dec 21...

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Margaret Sanger: When a motherhood...

Margaret Sanger: When a motherhood...

When a motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will...

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Linda Ronstadt: You have to...

Linda Ronstadt: You have to...

You have to erect a fence and say OK, scale this.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Ruth Etting: Nothing else to...

Ruth Etting: Nothing else to...

Nothing else to do
but sit around and think about you
just think about you/that's all that I...

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Alberta Hunter: [The musicians] that...

Alberta Hunter: [The musicians] that...

[The musicians] that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all...

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Ma Rainey: You see me...

Ma Rainey: You see me...

You see me ravin', you hear me crying,
Of Lawd, this lonely heart of maine,
Sometimes I'm grieving from my hat...

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Elayne Boosler: I'm just a...

Elayne Boosler: I'm just a...

I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Joan Baez: Action is the...

Joan Baez: Action is the...

Action is the antidote to despair.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Joan Baez: Only you and...

Joan Baez: Only you and...

Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in...

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Ella Fitzgerald: I guess what...

Ella Fitzgerald: I guess what...

I guess what everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved. And to know that you loved me for my singing is...

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Ingrid Bergman: A kiss is...

Ingrid Bergman: A kiss is...

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

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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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Geraldine Chaplin: If you make...

Geraldine Chaplin: If you make...

If you make films, you're changing rhythm the whole time. You go from a quiet life to an absolutely turbulent life...

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Hermione Gingold: Really, sex and...

Hermione Gingold: Really, sex and...

Really, sex and laughter do go very well together, and I wondered -- and I still do -- which is more...

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Katharine Hepburn: Life is to...

Katharine Hepburn: Life is to...

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be...

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Whoopi Goldberg: The art of...

Whoopi Goldberg: The art of...

The art of acting is to be other than what you are.

Source: In What's Whoopi...

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Carol Burnett: Only I can...

Carol Burnett: Only I can...

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Elizabeth Coatsworth: Only of one...

Elizabeth Coatsworth: Only of one...

Only of one thing I am sure:
when I dream
I am always ageless.


Source:...

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Sarah Knowles Bolton: Be glad today,...

Sarah Knowles Bolton: Be glad today,...

Be glad today, tomorrow may bring tears.
Be brave today, the darkest night will pass.
And golden rays will...

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Jessie Redmon Fauset: The remarkable thing...

Jessie Redmon Fauset: The remarkable thing...

The remarkable thing about this gift of ours is that it has its rise, I am convinced, in the very woes which beset us...

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