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Michelle Pfeiffer: When you're young...

Michelle Pfeiffer: When you're young...

When you're young and have a dream, it's pretty simplistic. You don't think about or have any way of knowing...

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Michelle Pfeiffer: I like being...

Michelle Pfeiffer: I like being...

I like being prepared. When things are going on and I have to learn my lines at the last minute, I'm never quite...

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Donna Reed: Remember the night...

Donna Reed: Remember the night...

Remember the night we broke the window in this old house? This is what I wished for.

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Daphne DuMaurier: She could not...

Daphne DuMaurier: She could not...

She could not separate success from peace of mind. The two must go together.

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Judith Krantz: The only way...

Judith Krantz: The only way...

The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to...

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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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Barbara Kingsolver: Sometimes the strength...

Barbara Kingsolver: Sometimes the strength...

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Source: In The...

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Barbara Kingsolver: Memory is a...

Barbara Kingsolver: Memory is a...

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

Source:...

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George Eliot: I like not...

George Eliot: I like not...

I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the...

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Iris Murdoch: A bad review...

Iris Murdoch: A bad review...

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

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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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Maxine Hong Kingston: To me success...

Maxine Hong Kingston: To me success...

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world -- that I...

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Edna O'Brien: There is something...

Edna O'Brien: There is something...

There is something about holding on to things that I find therapeutic.

Source: The...

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Pearl Buck: You cannot make...

Pearl Buck: You cannot make...

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your...

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Jane Austen: I think I...

Jane Austen: I think I...

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to...

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Elizabeth Gaskell: How easy it...

Elizabeth Gaskell: How easy it...

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!

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Angela Carter: There are lots...

Angela Carter: There are lots...

There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose...

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Willa Cather: There are only...

Willa Cather: There are only...

There are only two or three human stories and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never...

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Anne Sophie Swetchine: There are words...

Anne Sophie Swetchine: There are words...

There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them...

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Toni Cade Bambara: [R]eappraise the past,...

Toni Cade Bambara: [R]eappraise the past,...

[R]eappraise the past, re-evaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are...

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