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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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Marsha Sinetar: To find in...

Marsha Sinetar: To find in...

To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. ...

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Ann Oakley: In our defence...

Ann Oakley: In our defence...

In our defence of biology and its mystique we are blind to the dangers of power. Women as the guardians of children...

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Susan Warner: . . ....

Susan Warner: . . ....

. . . and many a good time we went back again, long afterward, and broke our rejected lump with great exultation to...

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Jean Ingelow: A healthful hunger...

Jean Ingelow: A healthful hunger...

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

Source:...

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Annie Elizabeth Delany: Once in a...

Annie Elizabeth Delany: Once in a...

Once in a while, God sends a good white person my way, even to this day. I think it's God's way of keeping me from...

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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: When I felt...

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: When I felt...

When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or...

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Karen Horney: The perfect normal...

Karen Horney: The perfect normal...

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Joyce Brothers: If your energy...

Joyce Brothers: If your energy...

If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously...

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Judy Blume: Are you there...

Judy Blume: Are you there...

Are you there God? It's me, Margaret. I just told my mother I want a bra. Please help me grow God. You know where. I...

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Eva Figes: Sadly, man recognises...

Eva Figes: Sadly, man recognises...

Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he...

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Katherine Paterson: A great novel...

Katherine Paterson: A great novel...

A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.

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Mary McCarthy: There are no...

Mary McCarthy: There are no...

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without...

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Rose Tremain: There is something...

Rose Tremain: There is something...

There is something about the unexpected that moves us. As if the whole of existence is paid for in some way, except...

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Annie Dillard: I startled a...

Annie Dillard: I startled a...

I startled a weasel who startled me, and we exchanged a long glance. . . . Our eyes locked, and someone threw away the...

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Annie Dillard: Every book has...

Annie Dillard: Every book has...

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement...

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Katharine Hepburn: Life can be...

Katharine Hepburn: Life can be...

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly...

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Barbara Stanwyck: Career is too...

Barbara Stanwyck: Career is too...

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love...

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Didi Conn: If there was...

Didi Conn: If there was...

If there was a food place, I was like cottage cheese, or maybe the lettuce. I had really so little to do on that...

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Anouk Aimee: The more the...

Anouk Aimee: The more the...

The more the years go by, the less I know. But if you give explanations and understand everything, then nothing can...

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