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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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Midge Decter: Ideas are powerful...

Midge Decter: Ideas are powerful...

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action....

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Margaret Bourke-White: If you banish...

Margaret Bourke-White: If you banish...

If you banish fear, nothing terribly bad can happen to you.

Source: In Words of...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: There is no...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: There is no...

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...

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Simone de Beauvoir: The writer of...

Simone de Beauvoir: The writer of...

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: One cannot collect...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: One cannot collect...

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if...

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Brenda Ueland: The only good...

Brenda Ueland: The only good...

The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or...

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Christina Baldwin: How we remember,...

Christina Baldwin: How we remember,...

How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our...

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Christina Baldwin: Forgiveness is the...

Christina Baldwin: Forgiveness is the...

Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people.

Source: Life's...

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Elizabeth Janeway: I admire people...

Elizabeth Janeway: I admire people...

I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. . . . They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and...

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Anya Seton: It is seldom...

Anya Seton: It is seldom...

It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher: One of the...

Dorothy Canfield Fisher: One of the...

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being...

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Andrea Dworkin: Wild intelligence abhors...

Andrea Dworkin: Wild intelligence abhors...

Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No...

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Harriet Martineau: I am sure...

Harriet Martineau: I am sure...

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are . ....

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Susan Faludi: [Feminism] asks that...

Susan Faludi: [Feminism] asks that...

[Feminism] asks that women be free to define themselves -- instead of having their identity defined for them, time and...

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Brigitte Bardot: It is better...

Brigitte Bardot: It is better...

It is better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

Source: The...

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Marilyn Monroe: I've been on...

Marilyn Monroe: I've been on...

I've been on a calendar, but never on time.

Source: Quoted in: Look (16 Jan....

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Whoopi Goldberg: I believe that...

Whoopi Goldberg: I believe that...

I believe that parts of people like John Garfield and Moms Mabley, the parts of them that I needed to be able to do...

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Whoopi Goldberg: The art of...

Whoopi Goldberg: The art of...

The art of acting is to be other than what you are.

Source: In What's Whoopi...

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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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