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Florence King: Owning your own...

Florence King: Owning your own...

Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same...

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Simone de Beauvoir: The curse which...

Simone de Beauvoir: The curse which...

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their...

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Catherine Drinker Bowen: There is a...

Catherine Drinker Bowen: There is a...

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as...

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Suzanne LaFollette: Laws are felt...

Suzanne LaFollette: Laws are felt...

Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

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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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Lynn Caine: Widow is a...

Lynn Caine: Widow is a...

Widow is a harsh and hurtful word. It comes from the Sanskrit and it means empty. I have been empty too...

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Elsa Maxwell: The cocktail party...

Elsa Maxwell: The cocktail party...

The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil.

Source: In An...

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Harriet Tubman: Twan't me, 'twas...

Harriet Tubman: Twan't me, 'twas...

Twan't me, 'twas de Lord! Jes' so long as he wanted to use me, he would take keer of me, an' when he didn't want me no...

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Anita Brookner: All good fortune...

Anita Brookner: All good fortune...

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and. . . you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by...

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Barbara Sher: You can learn...

Barbara Sher: You can learn...

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like...

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Barbara Sher: The amount of...

Barbara Sher: The amount of...

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

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Elizabeth Hardwick: Sex can no...

Elizabeth Hardwick: Sex can no...

Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner,...

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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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Margaret Anderson: . . ....

Margaret Anderson: . . ....

. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you...

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Judith Crist: When we as...

Judith Crist: When we as...

When we as youngsters, would accuse our mother of picking on us her wise reply was, All you'll get from strangers is...

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Jessica Mitford: O death where...

Jessica Mitford: O death where...

O death where is thy sting? O grave where is thy victory? Where, indeed? Many a badly stung survivor, faced with the...

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Rona Barrett: I'm a real...

Rona Barrett: I'm a real...

I'm a real pussy cat -- with an iron tail.

Source: In Poisonous Quotes, by Colin...

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Fran Lebowitz: If you are...

Fran Lebowitz: If you are...

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater. . . suggest that he wear a...

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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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Erma Bombeck: I do not...

Erma Bombeck: I do not...

I do not participate in a sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill.

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