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Judy Collins: I am glad...

Judy Collins: I am glad...

I am glad so many women singers are being heard in music today. It is healthy for music . . . healthy because it means...

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Joan Baez: You don't get...

Joan Baez: You don't get...

You don't get to choose how you are going to die or when. You can only decide how you're going to...

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Betty Carter: You can do...

Betty Carter: You can do...

You can do anything you want to do, if you know what to do.

Source: From a...

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Alice Childress: The Black writer...

Alice Childress: The Black writer...

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

Source: A Candle in a Gale...

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Marilyn Monroe: It stirs up...

Marilyn Monroe: It stirs up...

It stirs up envy, fame does.

Source: In Common Fame: The Culture of Celebrity,...

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Whoopi Goldberg: I told her...

Whoopi Goldberg: I told her...

I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.

Source:...

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Carol Burnett: People invite me...

Carol Burnett: People invite me...

People invite me to dinner not because I cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from...

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Alice Meynell: Happiness is not...

Alice Meynell: Happiness is not...

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

Source:...

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Audre Lorde: Our feelings are...

Audre Lorde: Our feelings are...

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

Source: My Words Will Be...

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Muriel Rukeyser: Dreams the sources...

Muriel Rukeyser: Dreams the sources...

Dreams the sources of action, the meeting and the end,
a resting-place among the flight of...

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Sonia Sanchez: Art . ....

Sonia Sanchez: Art . ....

Art . . . reacts to or reflects the culture it springs from.

Source:...

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Anne Spencer: I proudly love...

Anne Spencer: I proudly love...

I proudly love being a Negro woman -- it's so involved and interesting.

Source:...

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Anna Letitia Barbauld: The most characteristic...

Anna Letitia Barbauld: The most characteristic...

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for...

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Eleanor Robson Belmont: I was trained...

Eleanor Robson Belmont: I was trained...

I was trained by my husband. He said, If you want a thing done go. If not send. I belong to that group of people who...

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Brigitte Bardot: I have been...

Brigitte Bardot: I have been...

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very...

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Michelle Pfeiffer: I'm a perfectionist,...

Michelle Pfeiffer: I'm a perfectionist,...

I'm a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad -- and other people, too. At the same time, I think that's one of the...

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Eliza Cook: Better build schoolrooms...

Eliza Cook: Better build schoolrooms...

Better build schoolrooms for the boy,
Than cells and gibbets for the man.


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Georgia Douglas Johnson: I've learned of...

Georgia Douglas Johnson: I've learned of...

I've learned of life this bitter truth
Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find...

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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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Marlene Dietrich: The weak are...

Marlene Dietrich: The weak are...

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak...

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