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Eileen Caddy: Gratitude helps you...

Eileen Caddy: Gratitude helps you...

Gratitude helps you to grow and expands; gratitude brings you and laughter into your life and into the lives of all...

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Barbara Sher: When you play...

Barbara Sher: When you play...

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're...

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Susan Sontag: Anthropology has always...

Susan Sontag: Anthropology has always...

Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject. . . . [The...

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher: Father sticks to...

Dorothy Canfield Fisher: Father sticks to...

Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.

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Harriet Ann Jacobs: There are no...

Harriet Ann Jacobs: There are no...

There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together.

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Barbara Smith: A major problem...

Barbara Smith: A major problem...

A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our...

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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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Jean Kerr: Even though a...

Jean Kerr: Even though a...

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a...

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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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Susan L Taylor: We need quiet...

Susan L Taylor: We need quiet...

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind an...

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Janet Flanner: I keep going...

Janet Flanner: I keep going...

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

Source: On her...

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Rona Barrett: It's ironic, but...

Rona Barrett: It's ironic, but...

It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for...

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Meg Greenfield: The greatest harm...

Meg Greenfield: The greatest harm...

The greatest harm of all the gore on the tube is that it may dull our response to the real...

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Fran Lebowitz: Polite conversation is...

Fran Lebowitz: Polite conversation is...

Polite conversation is rarely either.

Source: Social Studies, 1977
-- Fran...

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Marya Mannes: In our society...

Marya Mannes: In our society...

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend...

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Dorothy Thompson: Only when we...

Dorothy Thompson: Only when we...

Only when we are no longer afraid do we being to live.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Fanny Burney: Far from having...

Fanny Burney: Far from having...

Far from having taken any positive step, I have not yet even fommed any resolution.

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Dorothy Uhnak: I like to...

Dorothy Uhnak: I like to...

I like to deliver more than I promise instead of the other way around. Which is just one of my many trade...

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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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Marsha Sinetar: Life's up and...

Marsha Sinetar: Life's up and...

Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as...

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