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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 Dix: Confession is always...

Dorothy Dix: Confession is always...

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in...

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Sojourner Truth: I am glad...

Sojourner Truth: I am glad...

I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring I...

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Hannah Whitall Smith: The mother eagle...

Hannah Whitall Smith: The mother eagle...

The mother eagle teachers her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave...

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Margaret Atwood: A voice is...

Margaret Atwood: A voice is...

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and...

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Muriel Spark: To me education...

Muriel Spark: To me education...

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of...

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Toni Cade Bambara: Old folks are...

Toni Cade Bambara: Old folks are...

Old folks are the nation.

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-- Toni Cade Bambara, (Mar 25 1939-1995), US...

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Zelda Fitzgerald: Nobody has ever...

Zelda Fitzgerald: Nobody has ever...

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

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Jane Rule: My private measure...

Jane Rule: My private measure...

My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To...

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Olive Schreiner: The troubles of...

Olive Schreiner: The troubles of...

The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will...

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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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Hannah Arendt: The sad truth...

Hannah Arendt: The sad truth...

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or...

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Ellen Glasgow: No matter how...

Ellen Glasgow: No matter how...

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless...

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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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Jessamyn West: A rattlesnake that...

Jessamyn West: A rattlesnake that...

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

Source: The Life I Really...

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Eudora Welty: Long before I...

Eudora Welty: Long before I...

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to...

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Fawn M Brodie: A man's memory...

Fawn M Brodie: A man's memory...

A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful...

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Gertrude Stein: Native always means...

Gertrude Stein: Native always means...

Native always means people who belong somewhere else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the...

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Mary Webb: The more anybody...

Mary Webb: The more anybody...

The more anybody wants a thing, the more they do think others want it.

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Geraldine Ferraro: It was not...

Geraldine Ferraro: It was not...

It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips...

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