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Mary Wilson Little: He who devotes...

Mary Wilson Little: He who devotes...

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become as wise at sixty as he thought himself at...

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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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Marilyn French: To nourish children...

Marilyn French: To nourish children...

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or...

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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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Marjorie Holmes: A child's hand...

Marjorie Holmes: A child's hand...

A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone...

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Maya Angelou: Black women have...

Maya Angelou: Black women have...

Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the...

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Mary Pettibone Poole: Culture is what...

Mary Pettibone Poole: Culture is what...

Culture is what your butcher would have if he were a surgeon.

Source: A Glass Eye...

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Anita Brookner: The lessons taught...

Anita Brookner: The lessons taught...

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so...

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Susan Sontag: Any critic is...

Susan Sontag: Any critic is...

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of...

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Rebecca West: Life ought to...

Rebecca West: Life ought to...

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the...

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Rebecca West: Any authentic work...

Rebecca West: Any authentic work...

Any authentic work of art must start as an argument between the artist and his audience.

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Helen Keller: Keep your face...

Helen Keller: Keep your face...

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.

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-- Helen...

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Dorothy Parker: His voice was...

Dorothy Parker: His voice was...

His voice was intimate as the rustle of sheets.

Source: Dusk before...

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Sarah Ban Breathnach: Be grateful for...

Sarah Ban Breathnach: Be grateful for...

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you...

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Marilyn vos Savant: If your head...

Marilyn vos Savant: If your head...

If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide...

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Marilyn vos Savant: . . ....

Marilyn vos Savant: . . ....

. . . what women want is what men want. They want respect.

Source: In Words of...

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Belva Lockwood: I do not...

Belva Lockwood: I do not...

I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade -- or that modesty and virtue are more...

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Emmeline Pankhurst: There is something...

Emmeline Pankhurst: There is something...

There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it...

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Peace Pilgrim: When you find...

Peace Pilgrim: When you find...

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with...

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Florence King: Owning your own...

Florence King: Owning your own...

Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same...

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