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Elayne Boosler: I'm just a...

Elayne Boosler: I'm just a...

I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Joan Rivers: People say that...

Joan Rivers: People say that...

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key...

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Judy Collins: I am glad...

Judy Collins: I am glad...

I am glad so many women singers are being heard in music today. It is healthy for music . . . healthy because it means...

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Mahalia Jackson: God can make...

Mahalia Jackson: God can make...

God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.

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Alice Childress: The Black writer...

Alice Childress: The Black writer...

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

Source: A Candle in a Gale...

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Edna St Vincent Millay: I find it's...

Edna St Vincent Millay: I find it's...

I find it's as hard to live down an early triumph as an early indiscretion.

Source:...

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Terry McMillan: I don't trust...

Terry McMillan: I don't trust...

I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is...

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Charlotte Bronte: The writer who...

Charlotte Bronte: The writer who...

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master- something that at time...

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Elizabeth Bishop: The art of...

Elizabeth Bishop: The art of...

The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is...

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Edith Evans: Death is my...

Edith Evans: Death is my...

Death is my neighbour now.

Source: Said a week before her death. BBC radio...

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Mae West: Marriage is a...

Mae West: Marriage is a...

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Source: In...

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Ethel Barrymore: Wrinkles should only...

Ethel Barrymore: Wrinkles should only...

Wrinkles should only indicate where smiles have been.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Marilyn Monroe: It stirs up...

Marilyn Monroe: It stirs up...

It stirs up envy, fame does.

Source: In Common Fame: The Culture of Celebrity,...

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Lillian Gish: Young man, if...

Lillian Gish: Young man, if...

Young man, if God had wanted you to see me that way, he would have put your eyes in your...

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Whoopi Goldberg: The art of...

Whoopi Goldberg: The art of...

The art of acting is to be other than what you are.

Source: In What's Whoopi...

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Kathe Kollwitz: For the last...

Kathe Kollwitz: For the last...

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and...

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Grandma Moses: Life is what...

Grandma Moses: Life is what...

Life is what we make it; always has been, always will be.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Kathe Kollwitz: I do not...

Kathe Kollwitz: I do not...

I do not want to die . . . until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed...

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Lynda Barry: Love will make...

Lynda Barry: Love will make...

Love will make a way out of no way.

Source: Big Ideas, 1983.
-- Lynda Barry,...

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Alice Duer Miller: Men are too...

Alice Duer Miller: Men are too...

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . ....

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