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Elizabeth Fishel: Comparison is a...

Elizabeth Fishel: Comparison is a...

Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.

Source: Sisters: Love & Rivalry...

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Elizabeth Janeway: In this nadir...

Elizabeth Janeway: In this nadir...

In this nadir of poetic repute, when the only verse that most people read from one year's end to the next is what...

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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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Marge Piercy: The real writer...

Marge Piercy: The real writer...

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its...

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Helen Rowland: Some women can...

Helen Rowland: Some women can...

Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be...

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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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Sara Jeannette Duncan: Why is it...

Sara Jeannette Duncan: Why is it...

Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the...

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Sara Jeannette Duncan: If you have...

Sara Jeannette Duncan: If you have...

If you have anything to tell me of importance, for God's sake begin at the end.

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Gail Hamilton: The total depravity...

Gail Hamilton: The total depravity...

The total depravity of inanimate things.

Source: Epigram
-- Gail Hamilton, ( ...

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Nancy Friday: The debt of...

Nancy Friday: The debt of...

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: Doing all we...

Minna Thomas Antrim: Doing all we...

Doing all we can to promote our friend's happiness is better than to continually drink to his...

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Helen Keller: My share of...

Helen Keller: My share of...

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

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Patricia Fripp: It amazes me...

Patricia Fripp: It amazes me...

It amazes me that most people spend more time planning next summer's vacation than they do planning the rest of their...

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Carolyn Heilbrun: Quoting, like smoking,...

Carolyn Heilbrun: Quoting, like smoking,...

Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

Source: In The...

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Sheila Ballantyne: The moon develops...

Sheila Ballantyne: The moon develops...

The moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.

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Ellen Key: When one paints...

Ellen Key: When one paints...

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Source: The...

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Fay Weldon: You end up...

Fay Weldon: You end up...

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you...

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Nancy Mitford: I have only...

Nancy Mitford: I have only...

I have only read one book in my life and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read...

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Marion Zimmer Bradley: Speak not against...

Marion Zimmer Bradley: Speak not against...

Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.

Source: Black...

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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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