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Gail Sheehy: The delights of...

Gail Sheehy: The delights of...

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

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Virgilia Peterson: Were marriage no...

Virgilia Peterson: Were marriage no...

Were marriage no more than a convenient screen for sexuality, some less cumbersome and costly protection must have...

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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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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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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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Phyllis Battelle: A broken heart...

Phyllis Battelle: A broken heart...

A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and...

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Janet Flanner: By jove, no...

Janet Flanner: By jove, no...

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer...

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Jamaica Kincaid: I didn't think...

Jamaica Kincaid: I didn't think...

I didn't think of myself as an outsider because of my race because... where I grew up I was the same race as almost...

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Fran Lebowitz: Bread that must...

Fran Lebowitz: Bread that must...

Bread that must be sliced with an ax is bread that is too nourishing.

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Erma Bombeck: Good kids are...

Erma Bombeck: Good kids are...

Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how...

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Erma Bombeck: I do not...

Erma Bombeck: I do not...

I do not participate in a sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill.

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Erma Bombeck: Anybody who watches...

Erma Bombeck: Anybody who watches...

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

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Erma Bombeck: Humor is a...

Erma Bombeck: Humor is a...

Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, it's unplanned, it's full of...

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Joan Konner: Journalism has always...

Joan Konner: Journalism has always...

Journalism has always existed in two different realities . . . the economic marketplace and [the] special institution...

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Renata Adler: People have been...

Renata Adler: People have been...

People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons,...

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Dorothy Parker: Then if my...

Dorothy Parker: Then if my...

Then if my friendships break and bend,
There's little need to cry
The while I know that every foe
Is faithful...

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Rose Kennedy: I looked on...

Rose Kennedy: I looked on...

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and...

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Linda Ellerbee: When the anchorman...

Linda Ellerbee: When the anchorman...

When the anchorman is wearing a colonel's uniform, it tells you something.

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Irene Thomas: I had a...

Irene Thomas: I had a...

I had a friend with a BYRon (297) telephone number; it's the old London exchanges, killed by the Postmaster...

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Patricia Fripp: The day that...

Patricia Fripp: The day that...

The day that you discover that you are in charge of your life is the day you turn your life...

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