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Beth Henley: There are probably...

Beth Henley: There are probably...

There are probably brilliant people, geniuses, alive today who don't even know how to say, Hello, how do you do?...

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Janet Erskine Stuart: All sorts of...

Janet Erskine Stuart: All sorts of...

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

Source:...

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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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Helen Rowland: Home' is any...

Helen Rowland: Home' is any...

'Home' is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Source: Reflections of a...

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Peggy Noonan: Speeches are not...

Peggy Noonan: Speeches are not...

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

Source:...

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Dorothea Brande: All that is...

Dorothea Brande: All that is...

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: act as if it were impossible to fail....

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Gail Sheehy: It is a...

Gail Sheehy: It is a...

It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it...

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Susan Sontag: The basic unit...

Susan Sontag: The basic unit...

The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of...

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Susan Sontag: Camp is a...

Susan Sontag: Camp is a...

Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style but a particular style. It is the love of the...

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Rebecca West: Everyone realizes that...

Rebecca West: Everyone realizes that...

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized...

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Marie de Sevigne: The desire to...

Marie de Sevigne: The desire to...

The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many...

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Harriet Ann Jacobs: There are no...

Harriet Ann Jacobs: There are no...

There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together.

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Alice James: Though I have...

Alice James: Though I have...

Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

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Diana Vreeland: I always wear...

Diana Vreeland: I always wear...

I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering.

Source: In...

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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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Ellen Goodman: Values are not...

Ellen Goodman: Values are not...

Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.

Source: In Reader's...

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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: And journalism itself...

Joan Konner: And journalism itself...

And journalism itself has changed. News organizations and some journalists have transformed from their traditional...

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Jane Howard: New links must...

Jane Howard: New links must...

New links must be forged as old ones rust.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Marian Wright Edelman: Education is a...

Marian Wright Edelman: Education is a...

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

Source: c. 1988.
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