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Estelle Ramey: I don't mind...

Estelle Ramey: I don't mind...

I don't mind . . . the fun and games of being treated like a fragile flower. But as a physiologist working with the...

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Anzia Yezierska: When I only...

Anzia Yezierska: When I only...

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high...

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Mary Stewart: It is harder...

Mary Stewart: It is harder...

It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.

Source: The Last...

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Eleanor H Porter: What men and...

Eleanor H Porter: What men and...

What men and women need is encouragement. . . . Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues....

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Daisy Ashford: Bernard always had...

Daisy Ashford: Bernard always had...

Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather...

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Betty Smith: There's a tree...

Betty Smith: There's a tree...

There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it...

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Lawana Blackwell: It isn't kind...

Lawana Blackwell: It isn't kind...

It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.

Source:...

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Francoise Sagan: Writing is a...

Francoise Sagan: Writing is a...

Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a...

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Louisa May Alcott: Father asked us...

Louisa May Alcott: Father asked us...

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never...

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George Eliot: Breed is stronger...

George Eliot: Breed is stronger...

Breed is stronger than pasture.

Source:
-- George Eliot, (Nov 22 1819-1880),...

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Etty Hillesum: Every day I...

Etty Hillesum: Every day I...

Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes,...

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Gertrude Stein: I write for...

Gertrude Stein: I write for...

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear readers, are an after-thought.

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Hannah Arendt: The sad truth...

Hannah Arendt: The sad truth...

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or...

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Annie Dillard: You can't test...

Annie Dillard: You can't test...

You can't test courage cautiously.

Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch. 6,...

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Natalia Ginzburg: When I write...

Natalia Ginzburg: When I write...

When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she...

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Sarah Orne Jewett: The thing that...

Sarah Orne Jewett: The thing that...

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper -- whether...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: You gain strength,...

Eleanor Roosevelt: You gain strength,...

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You...

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Jane Rule: Morality, like language,...

Jane Rule: Morality, like language,...

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned,...

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Olive Schreiner: How hard it...

Olive Schreiner: How hard it...

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on...

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Edna O'Brien: I'm a tuning...

Edna O'Brien: I'm a tuning...

I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold,...

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