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Diane Arbus: Everybody has that...

Diane Arbus: Everybody has that...

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people...

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Beatrice Potter Webb: . . ....

Beatrice Potter Webb: . . ....

. . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into...

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Liza Minnelli: Reality is something...

Liza Minnelli: Reality is something...

Reality is something you rise above.

Source: In The Book of Quotes, by Barbara...

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Alberta Hunter: [The musicians] that...

Alberta Hunter: [The musicians] that...

[The musicians] that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all...

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Judy Collins: I don't know...

Judy Collins: I don't know...

I don't know where my songs come from . . . If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this...

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Maureen Duffy: All reduction of...

Maureen Duffy: All reduction of...

All reduction of people to objects, all imposition of labels and patterns to which they must conform, all segregation...

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Diane Ackerman: There is no...

Diane Ackerman: There is no...

There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our...

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox: So many gods,...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: So many gods,...

So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is all the...

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Fannie Hurst: Some people think...

Fannie Hurst: Some people think...

Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.

Source:...

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Janis Joplin: Audiences like their...

Janis Joplin: Audiences like their...

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

Source: In Woman's Almanac, by...

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Mariah Carey: This is for...

Mariah Carey: This is for...

This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream - don't ever give up! Never ever listen to anyone, when...

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Suzanne Vega: I always thought...

Suzanne Vega: I always thought...

I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong.

Source: In...

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Oprah Winfrey: Books were my...

Oprah Winfrey: Books were my...

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to...

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: Whenever I was...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: Whenever I was...

Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, [Jack] always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away...

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Roseanne Barr: It's okay to...

Roseanne Barr: It's okay to...

It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.

Source:...

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Carol Burnett: Are we having...

Carol Burnett: Are we having...

Are we having fun yet?

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection,...

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Katharine Hepburn: It'd be a...

Katharine Hepburn: It'd be a...

It'd be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next...

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Gilda Radner: I can always...

Gilda Radner: I can always...

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

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Liv Ullmann: The older one...

Liv Ullmann: The older one...

The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work...

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Brigitte Bardot: I have been...

Brigitte Bardot: I have been...

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very...

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