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Peggy Noonan: TV gives everyone...

Peggy Noonan: TV gives everyone...

TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.

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Peggy Noonan: Sincerity and competence...

Peggy Noonan: Sincerity and competence...

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

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Simone de Beauvoir: The day knowledge...

Simone de Beauvoir: The day knowledge...

The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social...

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Carol Gilligan: In the different...

Carol Gilligan: In the different...

In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility,...

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Ingrid Bengis: The real questions...

Ingrid Bengis: The real questions...

The real questions refuse to be placated. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately,...

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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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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: One of the...

Jean Kerr: One of the...

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is the assumption on the part of the staff that because...

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Jessica Mitford: Gracious dying is...

Jessica Mitford: Gracious dying is...

Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.

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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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Fran Lebowitz: Bread that must...

Fran Lebowitz: Bread that must...

Bread that must be sliced with an ax is bread that is too nourishing.

Source:...

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Elizabeth Hardwick: The fifties --...

Elizabeth Hardwick: The fifties --...

The fifties -- they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief...

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher: A mother is...

Dorothy Canfield Fisher: A mother is...

A mother is not a person to lean on but person to make leaning unnecessary.

Source:...

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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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Margaret Atwood: Gardening is not...

Margaret Atwood: Gardening is not...

Gardening is not a rational act.

Source: Bluebeard's Egg/ 1986
-- Margaret...

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Margaret Atwood: Sons branch out,...

Margaret Atwood: Sons branch out,...

Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Angela Carter: Fine art, that...

Angela Carter: Fine art, that...

Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist,...

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Ouida: A cruel story...

Ouida: A cruel story...

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

Source:...

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Patricia McKillip: Content, it dreams...

Patricia McKillip: Content, it dreams...

Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except...

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Brigid Brophy: To my mind,...

Brigid Brophy: To my mind,...

To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth...

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