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Alice Childress: Child, when hard...

Alice Childress: Child, when hard...

Child, when hard luck fall it just keep fallin'.

Source: Oldtimer in Wine in the...

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Joanna Baillie: This will be...

Joanna Baillie: This will be...

This will be triumph! this will be happiness! yea, that very thing, happiness, which I have been pursuing all my life,...

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Audre Lorde: I am deliberate...

Audre Lorde: I am deliberate...

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Caroline Sheridan Norton: They serve God...

Caroline Sheridan Norton: They serve God...

They serve God well, who serve his creatures.

Source: The Lady of LaGaraye,...

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Maureen Duffy: The pain of...

Maureen Duffy: The pain of...

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It's a perpetual wound.

Source:...

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Maureen Duffy: Love is the...

Maureen Duffy: Love is the...

Love is the only effective counter to death.

Source: Wounds, 1969.
-- Maureen...

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Zora Neale Hurston: I have a...

Zora Neale Hurston: I have a...

I have a strong suspicion . . . that much that passes for constant love is a golded-up moment walking in its...

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Vita Sackville-West: [The writer] catches...

Vita Sackville-West: [The writer] catches...

[The writer] catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of...

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Wendy Wasserstein: You're the unfortunate...

Wendy Wasserstein: You're the unfortunate...

You're the unfortunate contradiction in terms -- a serious good person.

Source: The...

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Aphra Behn: Love ceases to...

Aphra Behn: Love ceases to...

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Source: The Lover's...

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Edith Sitwell: I have often...

Edith Sitwell: I have often...

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty. . . . But I am too busy thinking about...

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Diane Wakoski: The best young...

Diane Wakoski: The best young...

The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first...

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Jenny Joseph: I shall go...

Jenny Joseph: I shall go...

I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick flowers in other people's gardens
And learn to...

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Mary Pickford: One of the...

Mary Pickford: One of the...

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most...

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Jeanne Moreau: Some people are...

Jeanne Moreau: Some people are...

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.

Source: In...

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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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Debra Winger: I make decisions...

Debra Winger: I make decisions...

I make decisions for my life, not the other way around. Besides, when you have a kid, you must weigh everything...

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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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Francesca Annis: It's funny, this...

Francesca Annis: It's funny, this...

It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: Nobody sees a...

Georgia O'Keeffe: Nobody sees a...

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time -- like to have a friend takes...

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