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Alexandra Ripley: We're not home-and-hearth...

Alexandra Ripley: We're not home-and-hearth...

We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge,...

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Anzia Yezierska: Like all people...

Anzia Yezierska: Like all people...

Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.

Source: The Miracle.
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Margaret Anderson: My greatest enemy...

Margaret Anderson: My greatest enemy...

My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.

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Jane Bryant Quinn: The rule on...

Jane Bryant Quinn: The rule on...

The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at...

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Meg Greenfield: There is such...

Meg Greenfield: There is such...

There is such a thing as tempting the gods. TalkIng too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always...

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Janet Flanner: She was built...

Janet Flanner: She was built...

She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.

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Joan Konner: Think of ideas...

Joan Konner: Think of ideas...

Think of ideas as a beat. To change a mind is to change the world.

Source: In Words...

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Joan Konner: This life isn't...

Joan Konner: This life isn't...

This life isn't bad for a first draft.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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Marya Mannes: The process of...

Marya Mannes: The process of...

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself...

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Maggie Kuhn: Old age is...

Maggie Kuhn: Old age is...

Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and...

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Renata Adler: It is always...

Renata Adler: It is always...

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own...

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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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Alice Koller: Being solitary is...

Alice Koller: Being solitary is...

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the...

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Naomi Wolf: Pain is real...

Naomi Wolf: Pain is real...

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or...

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Marge Piercy: The pitcher cries...

Marge Piercy: The pitcher cries...

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

Source:...

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Helen Rowland: France may claim...

Helen Rowland: France may claim...

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are made in...

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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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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: I believe that...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: I believe that...

I believe that what women resent is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself...

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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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June Jordan: As I am...

June Jordan: As I am...

As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry.

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