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Zora Neale Hurston: If you haven't...

Zora Neale Hurston: If you haven't...

If you haven't got it,
you can't show it.
If you have got it,
you can't hide it.


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Aphra Behn: Love ceases to...

Aphra Behn: Love ceases to...

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Source: The Lover's...

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Janet Erskine Stuart: All sorts of...

Janet Erskine Stuart: All sorts of...

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

Source:...

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Diane Arbus: You see someone...

Diane Arbus: You see someone...

You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

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Kathe Kollwitz: For the last...

Kathe Kollwitz: For the last...

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and...

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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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Sarah Bernhardt: The monster of...

Sarah Bernhardt: The monster of...

The monster of advertisement. . . is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in...

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Whoopi Goldberg: I'm fighting the...

Whoopi Goldberg: I'm fighting the...

I'm fighting the label of Black actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are...

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Mari Evans: I am a...

Mari Evans: I am a...

I am a black woman
the music of my song
some sweet arpeggio of tears
is written in a minor key
and...

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Maxine Kumin: To write about...

Maxine Kumin: To write about...

To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of...

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Susan Griffin: What is buried...

Susan Griffin: What is buried...

What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.

Source: In...

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Sophia Loren: Sex appeal is...

Sophia Loren: Sex appeal is...

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've...

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Mary Pickford: One of the...

Mary Pickford: One of the...

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most...

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Jean Harlow: One day when...

Jean Harlow: One day when...

One day when he was eating a cookie he offered me a bite. Don't underestimate that. The poor guy's so frightened of...

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Loretta Swit: So much of...

Loretta Swit: So much of...

So much of life is luck. One day you make a right turn and get hit by a car. Turn left and you meet the love of your...

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Michelle Pfeiffer: I like being...

Michelle Pfeiffer: I like being...

I like being prepared. When things are going on and I have to learn my lines at the last minute, I'm never quite...

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Mrs Patrick Campbell: When you were...

Mrs Patrick Campbell: When you were...

When you were quite a little boy somebody ought to have said 'hush' just once.

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Zora Neale Hurston: Ships at a...

Zora Neale Hurston: Ships at a...

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

Source: Their Eyes were...

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Zora Neale Hurston: There is no...

Zora Neale Hurston: There is no...

There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's...

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Terry McMillan: Too many of...

Terry McMillan: Too many of...

Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down,...

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