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Katharine Whitehorn: I am all...

Katharine Whitehorn: I am all...

I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the...

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Barbara Walters: Wait for those...

Barbara Walters: Wait for those...

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals...

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Irene Thomas: Very few people...

Irene Thomas: Very few people...

Very few people seem to admit to coming from my family's class, which I suppose could be described as Upper Working....

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Margaret Anderson: My greatest enemy...

Margaret Anderson: My greatest enemy...

My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.

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Agnes Repplier: It is impossible...

Agnes Repplier: It is impossible...

It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the...

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Diana Vreeland: I always wear...

Diana Vreeland: I always wear...

I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering.

Source: In...

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Judith Crist: More bomb than...

Judith Crist: More bomb than...

More bomb than bombshell.

Source: On Carroll Baker performance in Baby Doll; in If...

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Jamaica Kincaid: My disappointments stand...

Jamaica Kincaid: My disappointments stand...

My disappointments stand up and grow ever taller. They will not be lost to me.

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Erma Bombeck: It seemed rather...

Erma Bombeck: It seemed rather...

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of supersophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of...

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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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Marya Mannes: The process of...

Marya Mannes: The process of...

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself...

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Elizabeth Hardwick: The fifties --...

Elizabeth Hardwick: The fifties --...

The fifties -- they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief...

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Rebecca West: The trouble with...

Rebecca West: The trouble with...

The trouble with man is twofold. He cannot learn the truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too...

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Midge Decter: It might sound...

Midge Decter: It might sound...

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of...

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Shana Alexander: The law changes...

Shana Alexander: The law changes...

The law changes and flows like water, and ... the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing...

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Delphine de Girardin: Good taste is...

Delphine de Girardin: Good taste is...

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or...

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Rosa Luxemburg: Victory or defeat?...

Rosa Luxemburg: Victory or defeat?...

Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. . . . And yet, what can...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Talent, like beauty,...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: Talent, like beauty,...

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

Source:...

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Monica Baldwin: A wisp of...

Monica Baldwin: A wisp of...

A wisp of gossamer, about the size and substance of a spider's web.

Source: On...

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Sara Jeannette Duncan: If you have...

Sara Jeannette Duncan: If you have...

If you have anything to tell me of importance, for God's sake begin at the end.

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