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Catherine Drinker Bowen: There is a...

Catherine Drinker Bowen: There is a...

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as...

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Carolyn Heilbrun: I don't know...

Carolyn Heilbrun: I don't know...

I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's...

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Gail Sheehy: With the only...

Gail Sheehy: With the only...

With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of...

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Diana Vreeland: Elegance is innate....

Diana Vreeland: Elegance is innate....

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

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Jean Kerr: Hope is the...

Jean Kerr: Hope is the...

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

Source:...

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Jean Kerr: Being divorced is...

Jean Kerr: Being divorced is...

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the...

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Abigail Van Buren: The less you...

Abigail Van Buren: The less you...

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Ellen Goodman: We spend January...

Ellen Goodman: We spend January...

We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be...

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Jane Bryant Quinn: Lawyers [are] operators...

Jane Bryant Quinn: Lawyers [are] operators...

Lawyers [are] operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to...

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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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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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Margaret Bourke-White: Usually I object...

Margaret Bourke-White: Usually I object...

Usually I object when someone makes overmuch of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of...

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Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua: Voyager, there are...

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua: Voyager, there are...

Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks.

Source: In Words of...

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Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua: I am playing...

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua: I am playing...

I am playing with myself,
I am playing with the world's soul,
I am the dialogue between myself and el espiritu...

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Rosa Luxemburg: Victory or defeat?...

Rosa Luxemburg: Victory or defeat?...

Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. . . . And yet, what can...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: The chief prerequisite...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: The chief prerequisite...

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible...

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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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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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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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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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