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Toni Cade Bambara: Old folks are...

Toni Cade Bambara: Old folks are...

Old folks are the nation.

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-- Toni Cade Bambara, (Mar 25 1939-1995), US...

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Mary McCarthy: There are no...

Mary McCarthy: There are no...

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without...

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Edna O'Brien: There is something...

Edna O'Brien: There is something...

There is something about holding on to things that I find therapeutic.

Source: The...

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Elizabeth Blackwell: It is not...

Elizabeth Blackwell: It is not...

It is not easy to be a pioneer -- but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for...

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Helen Rowland: Call the bald...

Helen Rowland: Call the bald...

Call the bald man, Boy; make the sage thy toy;
Greet the youth with solemn face; praise the fat man for his...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The sea does...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The sea does...

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open,...

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Florence King: We wallow in...

Florence King: We wallow in...

We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed...

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Peggy Noonan: Now he is...

Peggy Noonan: Now he is...

Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult...

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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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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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Helen Lawrenson: [Their] uniformity of...

Helen Lawrenson: [Their] uniformity of...

[Their] uniformity of appearance is frequently a triumph of modern science, thanks to which they can be equipped with...

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Jean Kerr: Hope is the...

Jean Kerr: Hope is the...

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

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Meg Greenfield: Everybody's for democracy...

Meg Greenfield: Everybody's for democracy...

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff...

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Meg Greenfield: There is such...

Meg Greenfield: There is such...

There is such a thing as tempting the gods. TalkIng too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always...

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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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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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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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Midge Decter: It might sound...

Midge Decter: It might sound...

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Modern historians are...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: Modern historians are...

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: One cannot collect...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: One cannot collect...

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if...

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