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Mary McCarthy: Bureacracy, the rule...

Mary McCarthy: Bureacracy, the rule...

Bureacracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

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Mary Stewart: Have you ever...

Mary Stewart: Have you ever...

Have you ever thought, when something dreadful happens, a moment ago things were not like this, let it be then, not...

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Lawana Blackwell: Propriety was a...

Lawana Blackwell: Propriety was a...

Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling...

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Betty Ford: I had thought...

Betty Ford: I had thought...

I had thought I would hate being First Lady. . . . I loved it.

Source: In 2,715...

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Princess Anne: Golf seems to...

Princess Anne: Golf seems to...

Golf seems to be an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dog's out.

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Ann Plato: A good education...

Ann Plato: A good education...

A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation...

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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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Dorothy Thompson: There is nothing...

Dorothy Thompson: There is nothing...

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the...

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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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Elizabeth Janeway: In this nadir...

Elizabeth Janeway: In this nadir...

In this nadir of poetic repute, when the only verse that most people read from one year's end to the next is what...

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Alice Koller: I've arrived at...

Alice Koller: I've arrived at...

I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore,...

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Margaret Oliphant: Imagination is the...

Margaret Oliphant: Imagination is the...

Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind.

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Eda LeShan: [O]ne can develop...

Eda LeShan: [O]ne can develop...

[O]ne can develop new capacities and strengths with which to meet the natural vicissitudes of living; that one may...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: Experience is a...

Minna Thomas Antrim: Experience is a...

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

Source: Naked Truth...

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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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Liz Smith: Begin somewhere; you...

Liz Smith: Begin somewhere; you...

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Source: In...

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Sarah Ban Breathnach: As we become...

Sarah Ban Breathnach: As we become...

As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path. . . we learn to savor the small with a...

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Peg Bracken: When there's a...

Peg Bracken: When there's a...

When there's a lot of it around, you never want it very much.

Source: The I Hate to...

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Maggie Kuhn: Learning and sex...

Maggie Kuhn: Learning and sex...

Learning and sex until rigor mortis.

Source: Her motto; in The Concise Columbia...

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Maggie Kuhn: There must be...

Maggie Kuhn: There must be...

There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Source: In...

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