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Karen Horney: The perfect normal...

Karen Horney: The perfect normal...

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Pearl Buck: I don't wait...

Pearl Buck: I don't wait...

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to...

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Elizabeth Bowen: Let's face it...

Elizabeth Bowen: Let's face it...

Let's face it -- who ever is adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at...

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E L Konigsburg: Some days you...

E L Konigsburg: Some days you...

Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up...

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Madeleine L'Engle: I believe that...

Madeleine L'Engle: I believe that...

I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist...

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Muriel Spark: To me education...

Muriel Spark: To me education...

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of...

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Jean Stafford: . . ....

Jean Stafford: . . ....

. . . as she moved from table to table, endeavoring to understand the [gambling] games, she realized that either her...

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Toni Cade Bambara: Writing, like dreams,...

Toni Cade Bambara: Writing, like dreams,...

Writing, like dreams, confronts, pushes you up against the evasions, self-deceptions, investments in opinions and...

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Jean Rhys: The feeling of...

Jean Rhys: The feeling of...

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. Like when they say, As it was in...

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Amy Tan: I did not...

Amy Tan: I did not...

I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on...

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Shirley Jackson: February, when the...

Shirley Jackson: February, when the...

February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of...

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Susan Warner: . . ....

Susan Warner: . . ....

. . . and many a good time we went back again, long afterward, and broke our rejected lump with great exultation to...

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Jean Ingelow: A healthful hunger...

Jean Ingelow: A healthful hunger...

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

Source:...

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Lawana Blackwell: Patterning your life...

Lawana Blackwell: Patterning your life...

Patterning your life around other?s opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Source:...

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Louisa May Alcott: All is fish...

Louisa May Alcott: All is fish...

All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into...

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Diane Sawyer: I think the...

Diane Sawyer: I think the...

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

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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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Clementine Paddleford: A tiny radish...

Clementine Paddleford: A tiny radish...

A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.

Source: Recalled on...

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Simone de Beauvoir: One is not...

Simone de Beauvoir: One is not...

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

Source: The Second Sex, Knopf...

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Simone de Beauvoir: This has always...

Simone de Beauvoir: This has always...

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons hitherto brought forward in explanation of this fact has...

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