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Betty Hutton: I don't even...

Betty Hutton: I don't even...

I don't even have many friends anymore because I backed away from them. When things went wrong for me I didn't want...

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Oprah Winfrey: Everyone has to...

Oprah Winfrey: Everyone has to...

Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

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Judith Crist: Amid all the...

Judith Crist: Amid all the...

Amid all the easily loved darlings of Charlie Brown's circle, obstreperous Lucy holds a special place in my heart. She...

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Fran Lebowitz: If you are...

Fran Lebowitz: If you are...

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater. . . suggest that he wear a...

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Anna Jameson: The true purpose...

Anna Jameson: The true purpose...

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to...

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Susan Sontag: Authoritarian political ideologies...

Susan Sontag: Authoritarian political ideologies...

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by...

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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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Patricia Fripp: It amazes me...

Patricia Fripp: It amazes me...

It amazes me that most people spend more time planning next summer's vacation than they do planning the rest of their...

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Fanny Burney: . . ....

Fanny Burney: . . ....

. . . Imagination took the reins, and Reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric...

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Molly Ivins: Satire is traditionally...

Molly Ivins: Satire is traditionally...

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.

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Rosa Luxemburg: The high stage...

Rosa Luxemburg: The high stage...

The high stage of world-industrial development in capitalistic production finds expression in the extraordinary...

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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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Brenda Ueland: These people who...

Brenda Ueland: These people who...

These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato...

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Alice Koller: Perhaps loving something...

Alice Koller: Perhaps loving something...

Perhaps loving something is the only starting place there is for making your life your...

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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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Sally Kempton: And yet wherever...

Sally Kempton: And yet wherever...

And yet wherever there exists the display of power there is politics, and in women's relations with men there is a...

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Dorothy Height: A Negro woman...

Dorothy Height: A Negro woman...

A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can,t take the same things for...

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Julie Burchill: A woman who...

Julie Burchill: A woman who...

A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most...

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Letty Cottin Pogrebin: No laborer in...

Letty Cottin Pogrebin: No laborer in...

No laborer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -- except the...

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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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