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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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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: When I stand...

Erma Bombeck: When I stand...

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and...

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Anna Quindlen: I would even...

Anna Quindlen: I would even...

I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Perhaps middle-age is,...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Perhaps middle-age is,...

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material...

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Peggy Noonan: Part of courage...

Peggy Noonan: Part of courage...

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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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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Carolyn Heilbrun: I don't know...

Carolyn Heilbrun: I don't know...

I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's...

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Carolyn Heilbrun: That's the point...

Carolyn Heilbrun: That's the point...

That's the point of quotations, you know: one can use another's words to be insulting.

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Virgilia Peterson: Were marriage no...

Virgilia Peterson: Were marriage no...

Were marriage no more than a convenient screen for sexuality, some less cumbersome and costly protection must have...

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Edna St Vincent Millay: Pity me that...

Edna St Vincent Millay: Pity me that...

Pity me that the heart is slow to learn
What the swift mind beholds at every turn.


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Edith Sitwell: My poems are...

Edith Sitwell: My poems are...

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

Source: Collected Poems.
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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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Whoopi Goldberg: If every American...

Whoopi Goldberg: If every American...

If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time...

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Fannie Hurst: Any writer worth...

Fannie Hurst: Any writer worth...

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another...

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Fannie Hurst: Some people think...

Fannie Hurst: Some people think...

Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.

Source:...

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Bette Midler: After thirty, a...

Bette Midler: After thirty, a...

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

Source: Reader's Digest, 1 Jun...

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Oprah Winfrey: Everyone has to...

Oprah Winfrey: Everyone has to...

Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

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Oprah Winfrey: My idea of...

Oprah Winfrey: My idea of...

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.

Source:...

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Alice Meynell: I come from...

Alice Meynell: I come from...

I come from nothing: but from where
come the undying thoughts I bear?


Source:...

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