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Lady Marguerite Blessington: There is no...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: There is no...

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...

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Harriet Lerner: Intimate relationships cannot...

Harriet Lerner: Intimate relationships cannot...

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Only when a...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Only when a...

Only when a tree has fallen can you take a measure of it. It is the same with a man.

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Christina Baldwin: How we remember,...

Christina Baldwin: How we remember,...

How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our...

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Eda LeShan: Education is in...

Eda LeShan: Education is in...

Education is in danger of becoming a religion based on fear; its doctrine is to compete. [O]ur children are being led...

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Anya Seton: It is seldom...

Anya Seton: It is seldom...

It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.

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Doris Lessing: Small things amuse...

Doris Lessing: Small things amuse...

Small things amuse small minds.

Source: A Woman on a Roof,' in A Man and Two...

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Alice James: The success or...

Alice James: The success or...

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right...

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Helen Gurley Brown: I care. I...

Helen Gurley Brown: I care. I...

I care. I care a lot. I think of Cosmopolitan, all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright, caring and...

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Agnes Repplier: In the stress...

Agnes Repplier: In the stress...

In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that...

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Susan L Taylor: We don't have...

Susan L Taylor: We don't have...

We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.

Source:...

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Erma Bombeck: I worry about...

Erma Bombeck: I worry about...

I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along. . . .

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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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Dorothy Height: A Negro woman...

Dorothy Height: A Negro woman...

A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can,t take the same things for...

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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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Edith Sitwell: Poetry is the...

Edith Sitwell: Poetry is the...

Poetry is the deification of reality.

Source: In Life, 4 Jan 1963.
-- Edith...

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Jacqueline Bisset: The deeper interior...

Jacqueline Bisset: The deeper interior...

The deeper interior you have the more you have in your llibrary.

Source: Interview...

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Jacqueline Bisset: I want to...

Jacqueline Bisset: I want to...

I want to keep my attractiveness as long as I can. It has to do with vitality, and energy and interest. We all lose...

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Donna Reed: Remember the night...

Donna Reed: Remember the night...

Remember the night we broke the window in this old house? This is what I wished for.

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Martha Graham: Dance is the...

Martha Graham: Dance is the...

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

Source: Interview The New York...

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