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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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Daisy Ashford: My own idear...

Daisy Ashford: My own idear...

My own idear is that these things are as piffle before the wind.

Source: The Earl...

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Nella Larsen: She wished to...

Nella Larsen: She wished to...

She wished to find out about this hazardous business of passing, this breaking away from all that was familiar and...

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Emily Bronte: Proud people breed...

Emily Bronte: Proud people breed...

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. [Nelly, in Wuthering Heights]

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Louisa May Alcott: Conceit spoils the...

Louisa May Alcott: Conceit spoils the...

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: It is the...

Barbara Ehrenreich: It is the...

It is the marketplace that calls most clearly for men to be softer, more narcissistic and receptive, and the new man...

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Carol Gilligan: My research suggests...

Carol Gilligan: My research suggests...

My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar...

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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: Seeing unhappiness in...

Elsa Maxwell: Seeing unhappiness in...

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a...

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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: Praise is the...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: Praise is the...

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.

Source: In And I...

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Harriet Lerner: We commonly confuse...

Harriet Lerner: We commonly confuse...

We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one...

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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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Helen Rowland: A man can...

Helen Rowland: A man can...

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little...

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Eda LeShan: A new baby...

Eda LeShan: A new baby...

A new baby is like the beginning of all things wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down...

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Dorothy Parker: Seventy-two suburbs in...

Dorothy Parker: Seventy-two suburbs in...

Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.

Source: Of Los Angeles, but others are...

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Fannie Lou Hamer: I'm sick and...

Fannie Lou Hamer: I'm sick and...

I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed....

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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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Andrea Dworkin: Seduction is often...

Andrea Dworkin: Seduction is often...

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of...

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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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