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Sheilah Graham: You just never...

Sheilah Graham: You just never...

You just never know when you're going into eternity.

Source: In The New Quotable...

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Helen Rowland: A good woman...

Helen Rowland: A good woman...

A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.

Source: In...

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Peggy Noonan: Most people aren't...

Peggy Noonan: Most people aren't...

Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves....

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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.

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Gail Sheehy: With the only...

Gail Sheehy: With the only...

With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of...

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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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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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Abigail Van Buren: True, a little...

Abigail Van Buren: True, a little...

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

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Jane Bryant Quinn: The rule on...

Jane Bryant Quinn: The rule on...

The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at...

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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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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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Erma Bombeck: Humor is a...

Erma Bombeck: Humor is a...

Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, it's unplanned, it's full of...

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Shirley Conran: I make no...

Shirley Conran: I make no...

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if...

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Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua: The world I...

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua: The world I...

The world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not give me.

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Catherine Drinker Bowen: Chamber music --...

Catherine Drinker Bowen: Chamber music --...

Chamber music -- a conversation between friends.

Source: In The Last Word - A...

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Margaret Oliphant: As for pictures...

Margaret Oliphant: As for pictures...

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at...

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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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Colette Dowling: Here it was...

Colette Dowling: Here it was...

Here it was -- the Cinderella Complex. It used to hit girls of sixteen or seventeen, preventing them, often, from...

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