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Natalia Ginzburg: Today, as never...

Natalia Ginzburg: Today, as never...

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster...

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Annie Dillard: I am a...

Annie Dillard: I am a...

I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my...

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Rachel Field: I've seen public...

Rachel Field: I've seen public...

I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

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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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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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Anna Letitia Barbauld: When one by...

Anna Letitia Barbauld: When one by...

When one by one our ties are torn,
And friend from friend is snatched forlorn;
When man is left alone to...

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Anna Letitia Barbauld: But every act...

Anna Letitia Barbauld: But every act...

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

Source: Remarks on...

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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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Camille Paglia: Minerva save us...

Camille Paglia: Minerva save us...

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Source: The Big...

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Joan Baez: Good morning, children...

Joan Baez: Good morning, children...

Good morning, children of the 80s. This is your Woodstock, and it's long overdue.

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Jane Wagner: Delusions of grandeur...

Jane Wagner: Delusions of grandeur...

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

Source: From an...

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Ella Fitzgerald: It isn't where...

Ella Fitzgerald: It isn't where...

It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts.

Source: In Ella...

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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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Ethel Barrymore: There is as...

Ethel Barrymore: There is as...

There is as much difference between the stage and the film as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become...

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Lauren Bacall: Generally women are...

Lauren Bacall: Generally women are...

Generally women are better than men -- they have more character. I prefer men for some things, obviously, but women...

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Carrie Fisher: You can't find...

Carrie Fisher: You can't find...

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so...

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Charlotte Bronte: The soul, fortunately,...

Charlotte Bronte: The soul, fortunately,...

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter -- in the...

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Hannah Cowley: The charms that...

Hannah Cowley: The charms that...

The charms that heIped to catch the husband are generally laid by, one after another, till the lady grows a downright...

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Denise Levertov: The poem has...

Denise Levertov: The poem has...

The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has kinetic force, it sets in...

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Elizabeth Bishop: All my life...

Elizabeth Bishop: All my life...

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like [the] sandpiper -- just running down the edges of different...

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