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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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Dorothea Brande: Where there is...

Dorothea Brande: Where there is...

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Source: In The...

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Elsa Maxwell: The secret of...

Elsa Maxwell: The secret of...

The secret of my success is that no woman has ever been jealous of me.

Source: The...

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Helen Keller: Knowledge is happiness,...

Helen Keller: Knowledge is happiness,...

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge --broad, deep knowledge --is to know true ends from false, and lofty...

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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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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Happiness consists not...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: Happiness consists not...

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

Source: In...

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Harriet Lerner: Underground issues from...

Harriet Lerner: Underground issues from...

Underground issues from one relationship or context invariably fuel our fires in another.

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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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Mary Wilson Little: Politeness is only...

Mary Wilson Little: Politeness is only...

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

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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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Gail Hamilton: The total depravity...

Gail Hamilton: The total depravity...

The total depravity of inanimate things.

Source: Epigram
-- Gail Hamilton, ( ...

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Kathryn Hulme: It is not...

Kathryn Hulme: It is not...

It is not easy to be a nun. It is a life of sacrifice and self-abnegation. It is a life against nature. Poverty,...

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Anna Jameson: The true purpose...

Anna Jameson: The true purpose...

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to...

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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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Sylvia Pankhurst: I have gone...

Sylvia Pankhurst: I have gone...

I have gone to war too . . . I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you...

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Ellen Key: The educator must...

Ellen Key: The educator must...

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the...

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Helen Lawrenson: Most of today's...

Helen Lawrenson: Most of today's...

Most of today's film actress are typical of a mass-production age: living dolls who look as if they came off an...

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Judith Crist: The critics who...

Judith Crist: The critics who...

The critics who love are the severe ones . . . we know our relationship must be based on...

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Jean Kerr: Being divorced is...

Jean Kerr: Being divorced is...

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the...

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Rona Barrett: It's ironic, but...

Rona Barrett: It's ironic, but...

It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for...

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