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Barbara Sher: You don't have...

Barbara Sher: You don't have...

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Judith Martin: What you have...

Judith Martin: What you have...

What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressed by nickname, expected to...

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Anna Quindlen: For most of...

Anna Quindlen: For most of...

For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like...

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Marlene Dietrich: Most women set...

Marlene Dietrich: Most women set...

Most women set out to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

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Virginia Graham: In society it...

Virginia Graham: In society it...

In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things. In the home the reverse is the...

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Virginia Graham: It is not...

Virginia Graham: It is not...

It is not done to let anybody be too happy. The moment two people seem to be enjoying one another's company, a good...

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Margaret Cho: Love is the...

Margaret Cho: Love is the...

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Source: In...

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Joan Rivers: I have become...

Joan Rivers: I have become...

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or...

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Bernice Johnson Reagon: The voice I...

Bernice Johnson Reagon: The voice I...

The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail . . . and I'd never...

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Alice Childress: . . ....

Alice Childress: . . ....

. . . and realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. . . . Time and events allow for change on both...

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Gloria Vanderbilt: The fame you...

Gloria Vanderbilt: The fame you...

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

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Zora Neale Hurston: Mama exhorted her...

Zora Neale Hurston: Mama exhorted her...

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to jump at de sun. We might not land on the sun, but at least we would...

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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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Jenny Joseph: I shall sit...

Jenny Joseph: I shall sit...

I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my...

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Ethel Barrymore: You must learn...

Ethel Barrymore: You must learn...

You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizons. The more things you love, the more you are...

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Meryl Streep: You can't get...

Meryl Streep: You can't get...

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

Source:
-- Meryl Streep, (Jun...

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Miriam Makeba: I look at...

Miriam Makeba: I look at...

I look at an ant and l see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size...

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Karen Carpenter: We came out...

Karen Carpenter: We came out...

We came out right in the middle of the hard-rock period . . . it was hard-rock everywhere! But we were ready to make...

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Bette Midler: My idea of...

Bette Midler: My idea of...

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

Source: In Webster's...

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Joni Mitchell: There are things...

Joni Mitchell: There are things...

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

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