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Paula Gunn Allen: We are the...

Paula Gunn Allen: We are the...

We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian...

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Anna Letitia Barbauld: The most characteristic...

Anna Letitia Barbauld: The most characteristic...

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for...

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Emily Dickinson: He ate and...

Emily Dickinson: He ate and...

He ate and drank the precious Words,
His Spirit grew robust;
He knew no more that he was poor,
Nor that his...

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Alice Meynell: I come from...

Alice Meynell: I come from...

I come from nothing: but from where
come the undying thoughts I bear?


Source:...

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Edith Nesbitt: Time is, as...

Edith Nesbitt: Time is, as...

Time is, as you are probably aware, merely a convenient fiction. There is no such thing as...

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Susan Griffin: Before a secret...

Susan Griffin: Before a secret...

Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.

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Charlotte Bronte: Feeling without judgement...

Charlotte Bronte: Feeling without judgement...

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a...

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Stevie Smith: I'm sorry to...

Stevie Smith: I'm sorry to...

I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer,
And as she dreams she gets paler and leaner.
Then be off to your...

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Virginia Graham: Good shot, bad...

Virginia Graham: Good shot, bad...

Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be...

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Yoko Ono: I saw that...

Yoko Ono: I saw that...

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose...

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Joan Rivers: Your anger can...

Joan Rivers: Your anger can...

Your anger can be 49 % and your comedy 51 %, and you're okay. If the anger is 51 %, the comedy is...

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Jackie Moms Mabley: A woman's a...

Jackie Moms Mabley: A woman's a...

A woman's a woman until the day she dies, but a man's only a man as long as he can.

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Gracie Allen: This used to...

Gracie Allen: This used to...

This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.

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Aretha Franklin: My heart is...

Aretha Franklin: My heart is...

My heart is still there in gospel music. It never left . . . I'm gonna make a gospel record and tell Jesus I cannot...

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Patti Smith: Those who have...

Patti Smith: Those who have...

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

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Joan Didion: I write entirely...

Joan Didion: I write entirely...

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means, what I want, and...

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Billie Holiday: No two people...

Billie Holiday: No two people...

No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

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Madonna: I wouldn't have...

Madonna: I wouldn't have...

I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel...

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Bette Midler: My idea of...

Bette Midler: My idea of...

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

Source: In Webster's...

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Mary Antin: A characteristic thing...

Mary Antin: A characteristic thing...

A characteristic thing about the aspiring immigrant is the fact that he is not content to progress alone. Solitary...

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