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Clara McBride Hale: Being black does...

Clara McBride Hale: Being black does...

Being black does not stop you. You can sit out in the world and say, Well, white people kept me back, and I can't do...

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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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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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Freya Stark: Love of learning...

Freya Stark: Love of learning...

Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond, since it deals with what one is and not what one...

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Jean Kerr: Being divorced is...

Jean Kerr: Being divorced is...

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the...

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Abigail Van Buren: While forbidden fruit...

Abigail Van Buren: While forbidden fruit...

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

Source:...

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Janet Flanner: By jove, no...

Janet Flanner: By jove, no...

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer...

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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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Joan Konner: And journalism itself...

Joan Konner: And journalism itself...

And journalism itself has changed. News organizations and some journalists have transformed from their traditional...

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Joan Konner: This life isn't...

Joan Konner: This life isn't...

This life isn't bad for a first draft.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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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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Barbara Walters: Success can make...

Barbara Walters: Success can make...

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna -- or it can smooth the edges, take away the...

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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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Linda Ronstadt: I don't think...

Linda Ronstadt: I don't think...

I don't think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you don't discourage...

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Doris Day: Vulgarity begins when...

Doris Day: Vulgarity begins when...

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

Source: In The Book of...

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Christina Aguilera: It [The Mickey...

Christina Aguilera: It [The Mickey...

It [The Mickey Mouse Club] was a great way to grow up. I loved being around kids who had the same passions I...

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Susan Sarandon: A guy'll listen...

Susan Sarandon: A guy'll listen...

A guy'll listen to anything if he thinks it's foreplay.

Source: Film: 'Bull...

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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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Berenice Abbott: Some people are...

Berenice Abbott: Some people are...

Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the...

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Amy Lowell: Hate is ravening...

Amy Lowell: Hate is ravening...

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

Source: In The...

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