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Delphine de Girardin: The best religion...

Delphine de Girardin: The best religion...

The best religion is the most tolerant.

Source: In 21st Century Dictionary of...

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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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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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Isabel Burton: I have no...

Isabel Burton: I have no...

I have no leisure to think of style or of polish, or to select the best language, the best English # no time to shine...

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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.

Source:...

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Miriam Beard: One must learn,...

Miriam Beard: One must learn,...

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate...

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Marge Piercy: When I work...

Marge Piercy: When I work...

When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting...

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Jane Smiley: As soon as...

Jane Smiley: As soon as...

As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then...

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Julie Burchill: It has been...

Julie Burchill: It has been...

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out...

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Monica Baldwin: I have always...

Monica Baldwin: I have always...

I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the 24 hours. No...

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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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Barbara Ehrenreich: The discovery of...

Barbara Ehrenreich: The discovery of...

The discovery of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the discovery of America almost 500 years...

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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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Helen Keller: Knowledge is happiness,...

Helen Keller: Knowledge is happiness,...

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge --broad, deep knowledge --is to know true ends from false, and lofty...

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Dorothy Parker: I might repeat...

Dorothy Parker: I might repeat...

I might repeat to myself . . . a list of quotations from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn...

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Marilyn vos Savant: . . ....

Marilyn vos Savant: . . ....

. . . what women want is what men want. They want respect.

Source: In Words of...

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Susan Sontag: Authoritarian political ideologies...

Susan Sontag: Authoritarian political ideologies...

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by...

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Rebecca West: Did St Francis...

Rebecca West: Did St Francis...

Did St Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the...

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Rebecca West: I write books...

Rebecca West: I write books...

I write books to find out about things.

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-- Rebecca West, (Dec 25...

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Margaret Anderson: My greatest enemy...

Margaret Anderson: My greatest enemy...

My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.

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