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Isabel Burton: I must just...

Isabel Burton: I must just...

I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting.

Source: Foreword,...

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Mary Wilson Little: A youth with...

Mary Wilson Little: A youth with...

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody...

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Dorothy Parker: Scratch a lover,...

Dorothy Parker: Scratch a lover,...

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Source: Ballade of a Great Weariness, Enough Rope,...

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Margaret Atwood: . . ....

Margaret Atwood: . . ....

. . . time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee. . . . I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the...

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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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Judy Blume: No place has...

Judy Blume: No place has...

No place has delicatessen like New York.

Source: Are You There, God? It's Me,...

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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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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: My mother, religious-negro,...

Toni Cade Bambara: My mother, religious-negro,...

My mother, religious-negro, proud of having waded through a storm, is, very obviously a sturdy bridge that I have...

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Daisy Ashford: My own idear...

Daisy Ashford: My own idear...

My own idear is that these things are as piffle before the wind.

Source: The Earl...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: What you are...

Lois McMaster Bujold: What you are...

What you are is a question only you can answer.

Source: In Collection of 10,000...

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Emily Bronte: Proud people breed...

Emily Bronte: Proud people breed...

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. [Nelly, in Wuthering Heights]

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George Eliot: To have in...

George Eliot: To have in...

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular...

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George Eliot: It's but little...

George Eliot: It's but little...

It's but little good you'll do awatering the last year's crop.

Source: Adam...

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Harper Lee: You never really...

Harper Lee: You never really...

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

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Mary McCarthy: I am putting...

Mary McCarthy: I am putting...

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.

Source: On The Group,, her 1963...

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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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Enid Bagnold: Judges don't age....

Enid Bagnold: Judges don't age....

Judges don't age. Time decorates them.

Source: Judge, in The Chalk Garden, act...

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Paule Marshall: Perhaps she was...

Paule Marshall: Perhaps she was...

Perhaps she was both child and woman,
darkness and light, past and present,
life and death -- all the...

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Meridel Le Sueur: These are the...

Meridel Le Sueur: These are the...

These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and...

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