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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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Martha Beck: The really potent...

Martha Beck: The really potent...

The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel...

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Sarah Ban Breathnach: Be grateful for...

Sarah Ban Breathnach: Be grateful for...

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you...

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Marilyn vos Savant: . . ....

Marilyn vos Savant: . . ....

. . . what women want is what men want. They want respect.

Source: In Words of...

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Ethel Percy Andrus: What I spent,...

Ethel Percy Andrus: What I spent,...

What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost;
but what I gave away will be mine forever.


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Olympia Brown: The more we...

Olympia Brown: The more we...

The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so...

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Anita Brookner: In real life,...

Anita Brookner: In real life,...

In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was...

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Shana Alexander: Letters are expectation...

Shana Alexander: Letters are expectation...

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

Source: The Surprises of the Mail...

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Simone de Beauvoir: The writer of...

Simone de Beauvoir: The writer of...

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and...

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Ann Oakley: The primary function...

Ann Oakley: The primary function...

The primary function of myth is to validate an existing social order. Myth enshrines conservative social values,...

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Nancy Friday: The debt of...

Nancy Friday: The debt of...

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: Satiety is a...

Minna Thomas Antrim: Satiety is a...

Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

Source: Naked Truth &...

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Renata Adler: The writer has...

Renata Adler: The writer has...

The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition,...

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Margaret Sanger: When a motherhood...

Margaret Sanger: When a motherhood...

When a motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will...

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Carolyn Heilbrun: Today's shocks are...

Carolyn Heilbrun: Today's shocks are...

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Liz Carpenter: What a lot...

Liz Carpenter: What a lot...

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters! You can't reread a phone call.

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Sheila Ballantyne: The moon develops...

Sheila Ballantyne: The moon develops...

The moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.

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Liza Minnelli: Reality is something...

Liza Minnelli: Reality is something...

Reality is something you rise above.

Source: In The Book of Quotes, by Barbara...

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Gypsy Rose Lee: I have everything...

Gypsy Rose Lee: I have everything...

I have everything I had twenty years ago -- except now it's all lower.

Source: In...

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Agnes George DeMille: No trumpets sound...

Agnes George DeMille: No trumpets sound...

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known...

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