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Gilda Radner: I can always...

Gilda Radner: I can always...

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

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Emily Dickinson: That it will...

Emily Dickinson: That it will...

That it will never come again
Is what makes life so sweet.


Source: poem no....

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Mari Evans: I'm<br>gonna spread out<br>over...

Mari Evans: I'm
gonna spread out
over...

I'm
gonna spread out
over America
intrude
my proud blackness
all
over the...

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Maxine Kumin: To write about...

Maxine Kumin: To write about...

To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of...

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Anne Spencer: I saw your...

Anne Spencer: I saw your...

I saw your heart,
And altered there in its darksome place
Were the tongues of flame the ancients knew . ....

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Gloria Swanson: I've given my...

Gloria Swanson: I've given my...

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

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Emily Carr: You always feel...

Emily Carr: You always feel...

You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go...

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Harriet Martineau: Readers are plentiful:...

Harriet Martineau: Readers are plentiful:...

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Source: Society in America, vol. 3,...

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Jamaica Kincaid: I didn't think...

Jamaica Kincaid: I didn't think...

I didn't think of myself as an outsider because of my race because... where I grew up I was the same race as almost...

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Clementine Paddleford: A tiny radish...

Clementine Paddleford: A tiny radish...

A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.

Source: Recalled on...

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Peggy Noonan: A great speech...

Peggy Noonan: A great speech...

A great speech is literature.

Source: In Ms. Magazine, 1 Dec 1988.
-- Peggy...

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Simone de Beauvoir: Patience is one...

Simone de Beauvoir: Patience is one...

Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after...

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Dorothea Brande: Old habits are...

Dorothea Brande: Old habits are...

Old habits are strong and jealous.

Source: Becoming A Writer, 1934.
-- Dorothea...

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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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Helen Keller: The heresy of...

Helen Keller: The heresy of...

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

Source: Optimism,...

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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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Amelia Barr: This world is...

Amelia Barr: This world is...

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In...

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Maggie Kuhn: Learning and sex...

Maggie Kuhn: Learning and sex...

Learning and sex until rigor mortis.

Source: Her motto; in The Concise Columbia...

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Natasha Josefowitz: What is luck?...

Natasha Josefowitz: What is luck?...

What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is there, and taking...

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Miriam Beard: One must learn,...

Miriam Beard: One must learn,...

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate...

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