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Liz Smith: Begin somewhere; you...

Liz Smith: Begin somewhere; you...

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Source: In...

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Peg Bracken: Why does a...

Peg Bracken: Why does a...

Why does a slight tax increase cost you $200 and a substantial tax cut save you 30 cents?

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Renata Adler: It is always...

Renata Adler: It is always...

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own...

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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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Mary Wilson Little: Politeness is only...

Mary Wilson Little: Politeness is only...

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

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Margaret Oliphant: It has been...

Margaret Oliphant: It has been...

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a...

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Jane Smiley: In my experience,...

Jane Smiley: In my experience,...

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand...

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Naomi Wolf: Pain is real...

Naomi Wolf: Pain is real...

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or...

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Maya Angelou: There's a world...

Maya Angelou: There's a world...

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

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Maya Angelou: Life loves the...

Maya Angelou: Life loves the...

Life loves the liver of it.

Source: The Black Scholar Interviews Maya Angelou, Jan...

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Ann Landers: There are really...

Ann Landers: There are really...

There are really only three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those...

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Judith Martin: The dinner table...

Judith Martin: The dinner table...

The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation,...

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Helen Rowland: A bachelor never...

Helen Rowland: A bachelor never...

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

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Peggy Noonan: Now he is...

Peggy Noonan: Now he is...

Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult...

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Peggy Noonan: TV gives everyone...

Peggy Noonan: TV gives everyone...

TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.

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Simone de Beauvoir: Patience is one...

Simone de Beauvoir: Patience is one...

Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after...

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Molly Haskell: Being alone and...

Molly Haskell: Being alone and...

Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than...

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Oriana Fallaci: With our progress...

Oriana Fallaci: With our progress...

With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call...

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