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Gertrude Stein: I could undertake...

Gertrude Stein: I could undertake...

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient...

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Margaret Mitchell: What most people...

Margaret Mitchell: What most people...

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a...

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Gloria Naylor: Not only is...

Gloria Naylor: Not only is...

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a...

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Marguerite Duras: A journalist is...

Marguerite Duras: A journalist is...

A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every...

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Judith Viorst: Love is much...

Judith Viorst: Love is much...

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern...

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Judith Viorst: Strength is the...

Judith Viorst: Strength is the...

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands- and then eat just one of the...

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Willa Cather: What was any...

Willa Cather: What was any...

What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element...

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Cynthia Ozick: The engineering is...

Cynthia Ozick: The engineering is...

The engineering is secondary to the vision.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Cynthia Ozick: In saying what...

Cynthia Ozick: In saying what...

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

Source: We...

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Eva Figes: There is a...

Eva Figes: There is a...

There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done...

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Toni Cade Bambara: [R]eappraise the past,...

Toni Cade Bambara: [R]eappraise the past,...

[R]eappraise the past, re-evaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are...

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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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Katharine Hepburn: Life can be...

Katharine Hepburn: Life can be...

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly...

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Shelley Winters: I did a...

Shelley Winters: I did a...

I did a picture in England one winter and it was so cold I almost got married.

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Shelley Winters: Acting is like...

Shelley Winters: Acting is like...

Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they're...

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Lotte Lehmann: But to me...

Lotte Lehmann: But to me...

But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must...

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Katharine Hepburn: Sometimes I wonder...

Katharine Hepburn: Sometimes I wonder...

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and...

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Whoopi Goldberg: When you are...

Whoopi Goldberg: When you are...

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like...

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Marilu Henner: Wherever my career...

Marilu Henner: Wherever my career...

Wherever my career takes me, I know I'll love getting there, because ever since I was 2 1/2 years old, I knew that...

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Marilu Henner: After 19 years...

Marilu Henner: After 19 years...

After 19 years of experimenting, a thousand mistakes, over 400 books, at least 200 bad diets... and a partridge in a...

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