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Jean Kerr: Hope is the...

Jean Kerr: Hope is the...

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

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Jean Kerr: Marrying a man...

Jean Kerr: Marrying a man...

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when...

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Fran Lebowitz: The opposite of...

Fran Lebowitz: The opposite of...

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

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Susan L Taylor: We don't have...

Susan L Taylor: We don't have...

We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.

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Jane Bryant Quinn: Lawyers [are] operators...

Jane Bryant Quinn: Lawyers [are] operators...

Lawyers [are] operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to...

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Martha Gellhorn: Gradually I came...

Martha Gellhorn: Gradually I came...

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey,...

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Erma Bombeck: I've been on...

Erma Bombeck: I've been on...

I've been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I've lost a total of 789 pounds. BY all accounts, I should be...

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Marya Mannes: The process of...

Marya Mannes: The process of...

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself...

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Jane Rule: Morality, like language,...

Jane Rule: Morality, like language,...

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned,...

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Mary McCarthy: Labor is work...

Mary McCarthy: Labor is work...

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field,...

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Marguerite Duras: For that's what...

Marguerite Duras: For that's what...

For that's what a woman, a mother wants -- to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for...

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Betty Ford: It's always been...

Betty Ford: It's always been...

It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't...

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Betty Ford: I had thought...

Betty Ford: I had thought...

I had thought I would hate being First Lady. . . . I loved it.

Source: In 2,715...

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Mary Renault: You can make...

Mary Renault: You can make...

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

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Ariel Durant: Education is the...

Ariel Durant: Education is the...

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Source: In Peter's Quotations, by...

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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: Bigamy is having...

Erica Jong: Bigamy is having...

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Source: In Webster's...

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Erica Jong: When I was...

Erica Jong: When I was...

When I was a ten-year-old book worm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it...

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Maria Edgeworth: All work and...

Maria Edgeworth: All work and...

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,
All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.


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Kate Seredy: There are hurts...

Kate Seredy: There are hurts...

There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words.

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