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Helen Lawrenson: They are a...

Helen Lawrenson: They are a...

They are a curious mixture of Spanish tradition, American imitation, and insular limitation. This explains why they...

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Fran Lebowitz: The opposite of...

Fran Lebowitz: The opposite of...

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

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Janet Flanner: I keep going...

Janet Flanner: I keep going...

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

Source: On her...

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Mignon McLaughlin: There are so...

Mignon McLaughlin: There are so...

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing...

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Marya Mannes: In our society...

Marya Mannes: In our society...

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend...

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Clara McBride Hale: When I'm gone,...

Clara McBride Hale: When I'm gone,...

When I'm gone, somebody else will take it up and do it. This is how we've lived all these...

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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Independence I have...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Independence I have...

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will...

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Simone de Beauvoir: Patience is one...

Simone de Beauvoir: Patience is one...

Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after...

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Katharine Whitehorn: From a commercial...

Katharine Whitehorn: From a commercial...

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent...

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Sheila Ballantyne: The moon develops...

Sheila Ballantyne: The moon develops...

The moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.

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Doris Lilly: The women [who...

Doris Lilly: The women [who...

The women [who marry millionaires] usually do everything for their men. They pack for them, make their phone calls and...

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Margaret Bourke-White: The beauty of...

Margaret Bourke-White: The beauty of...

The beauty of the past belongs to the past.

Source: On modern photojournalism; in...

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Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua: The act of...

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua: The act of...

The act of writing is the act of making soul, alchemy.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Phyllis George: It doesn't seem...

Phyllis George: It doesn't seem...

It doesn't seem too unusual to have a live hermit crab here in Atlantic City, but when you think I brought it all the...

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Hannah More: Goals help you...

Hannah More: Goals help you...

Goals help you overcome short-term problems.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Miriam Beard: Certainly, travel is...

Miriam Beard: Certainly, travel is...

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of...

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Margaret Oliphant: It has been...

Margaret Oliphant: It has been...

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a...

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Marge Piercy: All women hustle....

Marge Piercy: All women hustle....

All women hustle. Women watch faces, voices, gestures, moods . . . She's the person who has to survive through...

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Grace Paley: There isn't a...

Grace Paley: There isn't a...

There isn't a story written that isn't about blood and money. People and their relationship to each other is the...

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Geraldine Ferraro: It was not...

Geraldine Ferraro: It was not...

It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips...

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