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Shana Alexander: Though a plane...

Shana Alexander: Though a plane...

Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have...

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Shana Alexander: Evolution is fascinating...

Shana Alexander: Evolution is fascinating...

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single...

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Shana Alexander: Trying to squash...

Shana Alexander: Trying to squash...

Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.

Source:
-- Shana...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Modern historians are...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: Modern historians are...

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Genius is the...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: Genius is the...

Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

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Simone de Beauvoir: I tore myself...

Simone de Beauvoir: I tore myself...

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded...

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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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Helen Rowland: A man's desire...

Helen Rowland: A man's desire...

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: Satiety is a...

Minna Thomas Antrim: Satiety is a...

Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

Source: Naked Truth &...

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Diana Vreeland: [Blue jeans are]...

Diana Vreeland: [Blue jeans are]...

[Blue jeans are] the most beautiful things since the gondola.

Source: In NY Times,...

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Jean Kerr: You don't seem...

Jean Kerr: You don't seem...

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy....

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Jean Kerr: I feel about...

Jean Kerr: I feel about...

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to...

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Jean Kerr: Women speak because...

Jean Kerr: Women speak because...

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself...

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Susan L Taylor: We don't have...

Susan L Taylor: We don't have...

We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.

Source:...

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Meg Greenfield: Ninety percent of...

Meg Greenfield: Ninety percent of...

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Erma Bombeck: I worry about...

Erma Bombeck: I worry about...

I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along. . . .

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Barbara Sher: Doing your own...

Barbara Sher: Doing your own...

Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best...

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Rebecca West: I write books...

Rebecca West: I write books...

I write books to find out about things.

Source:
-- Rebecca West, (Dec 25...

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Maxine Kumin: We are, each...

Maxine Kumin: We are, each...

We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.

Source: In...

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Susan Griffin: I am not...

Susan Griffin: I am not...

I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the...

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