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Clara McBride Hale: Being black does...

Clara McBride Hale: Being black does...

Being black does not stop you. You can sit out in the world and say, Well, white people kept me back, and I can't do...

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Ellen Key: When one paints...

Ellen Key: When one paints...

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Source: The...

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Mary Austin: Ride your emotions...

Mary Austin: Ride your emotions...

Ride your emotions as the shallop rides the waves; don't get upset among them. There are people who enjoy getting...

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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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Freya Stark: The great and...

Freya Stark: The great and...

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and...

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Fran Lebowitz: The opposite of...

Fran Lebowitz: The opposite of...

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

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Meg Greenfield: We are fickle...

Meg Greenfield: We are fickle...

We are fickle and we are insatiable in our appetite for new news, new biases, new cliches.... It's not just... that...

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Erma Bombeck: I've been on...

Erma Bombeck: I've been on...

I've been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I've lost a total of 789 pounds. BY all accounts, I should be...

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Joan Konner: This life isn't...

Joan Konner: This life isn't...

This life isn't bad for a first draft.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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Molly Ivins: The first rule...

Molly Ivins: The first rule...

The first rule of holes: when you're in one, stop digging.

Source: From Creators...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Only when a...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Only when a...

Only when a tree has fallen can you take a measure of it. It is the same with a man.

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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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Helen Rowland: Falling in love...

Helen Rowland: Falling in love...

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the...

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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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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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Eda LeShan: Psychotherapy can be...

Eda LeShan: Psychotherapy can be...

Psychotherapy can be one of the greatest and most rewarding adventures, it can bring with it the deepest feelings of...

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Peggy Noonan: Remember the waterfront...

Peggy Noonan: Remember the waterfront...

Remember the waterfront shack with the sign Fresh Fish Sold Here. Of course it's fresh, we're on the ocean. Of course...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: Enthusiasms, like stimulants,...

Minna Thomas Antrim: Enthusiasms, like stimulants,...

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.

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Minna Thomas Antrim: Man proposes, woman...

Minna Thomas Antrim: Man proposes, woman...

Man proposes, woman forecloses.

Source: Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions, (1901,...

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Mary Pickford: One of the...

Mary Pickford: One of the...

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most...

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