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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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Ella Wheeler Wilcox: A pat on...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: A pat on...

A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in...

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Candice Bergen: Living in L.A....

Candice Bergen: Living in L.A....

Living in L.A. is like not having a date on Saturday night.

Source: In The Book of...

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Judy Garland: In the silence...

Judy Garland: In the silence...

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of...

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Ma Rainey: My audience wants...

Ma Rainey: My audience wants...

My audience wants to see me beautifully gowned, and I have spared no expense or pains . . . For I feel that the best...

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Judy Collins: I've gone through...

Judy Collins: I've gone through...

I've gone through many, many things. I tell you something, that if it doesn't kill you, you get...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: When one is...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: When one is...

When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot touch others.

Source: Gift From...

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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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Katharine Whitehorn: I blame Rousseau,...

Katharine Whitehorn: I blame Rousseau,...

I blame Rousseau, myself. Man is born free, indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by a cord...

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Katharine Whitehorn: Why are the...

Katharine Whitehorn: Why are the...

Why are the umpires, the only two people on the field who aren't going to get grass stains on their knees, the only...

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Lynn Caine: It's wrenching enough...

Lynn Caine: It's wrenching enough...

It's wrenching enough to lose the man who is your lover, your companion, your best friend, the father of your...

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Ingrid Bengis: The real trap...

Ingrid Bengis: The real trap...

The real trap of fame is its irresistibility.

Source: Monroe According to Mailer,...

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Virgilia Peterson: However often marriage...

Virgilia Peterson: However often marriage...

However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of heart and nerve and fiber,...

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Elsa Maxwell: Serve the dinner...

Elsa Maxwell: Serve the dinner...

Serve the dinner backward, do anything but for goodness sake, do something weird.

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Ellen Key: The educator must...

Ellen Key: The educator must...

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the...

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Angela Davis: The work of...

Angela Davis: The work of...

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be...

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Helen Lawrenson: Most of today's...

Helen Lawrenson: Most of today's...

Most of today's film actress are typical of a mass-production age: living dolls who look as if they came off an...

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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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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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Dorothy Thompson: The instinct to...

Dorothy Thompson: The instinct to...

The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.

Source: In...

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