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Gertrude Stein: Everybody gets so...

Gertrude Stein: Everybody gets so...

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

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Ellen Glasgow: A tragic irony...

Ellen Glasgow: A tragic irony...

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which...

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Maxine Hong Kingston: I learned to...

Maxine Hong Kingston: I learned to...

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for...

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Carolyn Wells: Of two evils...

Carolyn Wells: Of two evils...

Of two evils choose the prettier.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....

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Fawn M Brodie: Housework is a...

Fawn M Brodie: Housework is a...

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like...

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Annie Dillard: Spend the afternoon....

Annie Dillard: Spend the afternoon....

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

Source: From Charles Daney's...

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Agatha Christie: Most successes are...

Agatha Christie: Most successes are...

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by...

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Erica Jong: Writing is one...

Erica Jong: Writing is one...

Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really...

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Marian Anderson: There are many...

Marian Anderson: There are many...

There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate,...

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Dinah Shore: Bing Crosby sings...

Dinah Shore: Bing Crosby sings...

Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower.

Source: In...

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Doris Day: Vulgarity begins when...

Doris Day: Vulgarity begins when...

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

Source: In The Book of...

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Rita Dove: I prefer to...

Rita Dove: I prefer to...

I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives...

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Muriel Rukeyser: Our poems will...

Muriel Rukeyser: Our poems will...

Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.

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Jessie Redmon Fauset: Biology transcends society....

Jessie Redmon Fauset: Biology transcends society....

Biology transcends society.

Source: The Chinaberry Tree, 1913.
-- Jessie Redmon...

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Anne Spencer: Let me learn...

Anne Spencer: Let me learn...

Let me learn now where Beauty is;
I was born to know her mysteries . . .


Source:...

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Maureen Duffy: Love is the...

Maureen Duffy: Love is the...

Love is the only effective counter to death.

Source: Wounds, 1969.
-- Maureen...

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox: With care, and...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: With care, and...

With care, and skill, and cunning art,
She parried Time's malicious dart,
And kept the years at bay,
Till...

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Vera Brittain: For the courage...

Vera Brittain: For the courage...

For the courage of greatness is adventurous and knows not withdrawing,
But grasps the nettle, danger, with resolute...

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Eleanor Robson Belmont: A woman in...

Eleanor Robson Belmont: A woman in...

A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in...

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Virginia Graham: In society it...

Virginia Graham: In society it...

In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things. In the home the reverse is the...

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