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Maxine Kumin: Cherish your wilderness....

Maxine Kumin: Cherish your wilderness....

Cherish your wilderness.

Source: You Are in Bear Country, The Long Approach,...

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Maxine Kumin: To write about...

Maxine Kumin: To write about...

To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of...

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Sonia Sanchez: The joy of...

Sonia Sanchez: The joy of...

The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I...

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Katharine Hepburn: Show me an...

Katharine Hepburn: Show me an...

Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star.

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Carrie Fisher: Instant gratification takes...

Carrie Fisher: Instant gratification takes...

Instant gratification takes too long.

Source: x
-- Carrie Fisher, (Oct 21...

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Gilda Radner: Life is about...

Gilda Radner: Life is about...

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going...

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Elizabeth Taylor: I feel very...

Elizabeth Taylor: I feel very...

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind...

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Elizabeth Ashley: The truth is...

Elizabeth Ashley: The truth is...

The truth is that I am enslaved . . . . in one vast love affair with 70 children.

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Jacqueline Bisset: I want to...

Jacqueline Bisset: I want to...

I want to keep my attractiveness as long as I can. It has to do with vitality, and energy and interest. We all lose...

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Vera-Ellen: Getting involved is...

Vera-Ellen: Getting involved is...

Getting involved is so, so . . . involving.

Source: As Ivy Smith ('Miss...

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Lillian Hellman: Success isn't everything...

Lillian Hellman: Success isn't everything...

Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.

Source: Julian, in Toys...

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Judith Crist: More bomb than...

Judith Crist: More bomb than...

More bomb than bombshell.

Source: On Carroll Baker performance in Baby Doll; in If...

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Rona Barrett: I'm a real...

Rona Barrett: I'm a real...

I'm a real pussy cat -- with an iron tail.

Source: In Poisonous Quotes, by Colin...

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Jamaica Kincaid: I didn't think...

Jamaica Kincaid: I didn't think...

I didn't think of myself as an outsider because of my race because... where I grew up I was the same race as almost...

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Mignon McLaughlin: Every society honors...

Mignon McLaughlin: Every society honors...

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Source: The...

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Marilyn vos Savant: Being defeated is...

Marilyn vos Savant: Being defeated is...

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

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Anne Frank: Parents can only...

Anne Frank: Parents can only...

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies...

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Midge Decter: Ideas are powerful...

Midge Decter: Ideas are powerful...

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action....

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Renata Adler: Nothing defines the...

Renata Adler: Nothing defines the...

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the...

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Margaret Bourke-White: Usually I object...

Margaret Bourke-White: Usually I object...

Usually I object when someone makes overmuch of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of...

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