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Edna St Vincent Millay: My candle burns...

Edna St Vincent Millay: My candle burns...

My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-
It gives a...

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Lillian Hellman: Nothing you write,...

Lillian Hellman: Nothing you write,...

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

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Hannah Cowley: The charms that...

Hannah Cowley: The charms that...

The charms that heIped to catch the husband are generally laid by, one after another, till the lady grows a downright...

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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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Alice Dunbar-Nelson: I had not...

Alice Dunbar-Nelson: I had not...

I had not thought of violets of late,
The wild, shy kind that springs beneath your feet
In wistful April...

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Audre Lorde: There are no...

Audre Lorde: There are no...

There are no new ideas still waiting in the wings to save us as women, as human. There are only old and forgotten...

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Vera Brittain: I can think...

Vera Brittain: I can think...

I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an...

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Marian Anderson: Every one has...

Marian Anderson: Every one has...

Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

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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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Janis Joplin: On stage I...

Janis Joplin: On stage I...

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

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Pearl Bailey: I never really...

Pearl Bailey: I never really...

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns...

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Bette Midler: After thirty, a...

Bette Midler: After thirty, a...

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

Source: Reader's Digest, 1 Jun...

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Harper Lee: You never really...

Harper Lee: You never really...

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

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Amy Tan: I did not...

Amy Tan: I did not...

I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on...

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Lisa Alther: Poets are the...

Lisa Alther: Poets are the...

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, I've always felt that a person's intelligence is...

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Elizabeth Bowen: Some people are...

Elizabeth Bowen: Some people are...

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

Source:...

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Ellen Glasgow: No idea is...

Ellen Glasgow: No idea is...

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be...

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Ariel Durant: Only a fool...

Ariel Durant: Only a fool...

Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We...

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Gertrude Stein: If you are...

Gertrude Stein: If you are...

If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over...

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Erica Jong: There is nothing...

Erica Jong: There is nothing...

There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great...

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