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Amy Tan: If you can't...

Amy Tan: If you can't...

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Tama Janowitz: As a writer,...

Tama Janowitz: As a writer,...

As a writer, I don't think it's my responsibility to make a point. I just write and hope there's someone who'll like...

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Dorothy Miller Richardson: It will all...

Dorothy Miller Richardson: It will all...

It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. ....

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Judith Rossner: A lie was...

Judith Rossner: A lie was...

A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have.

Source:...

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Francoise Sagan: It seems to...

Francoise Sagan: It seems to...

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the fronts people assume before one another's eyes, and the front...

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George Eliot: Vanity is as...

George Eliot: Vanity is as...

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot...

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Emily Bronte: Love is like...

Emily Bronte: Love is like...

Love is like the wild-rose briar;
Friendship is like the holly-tree.
The holly is dark when the rose briar...

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Emily Bronte: A good heart...

Emily Bronte: A good heart...

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad. . . and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than...

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M F K Fisher: Probably one of...

M F K Fisher: Probably one of...

Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.

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Lillian Carter: How could Jimmy...

Lillian Carter: How could Jimmy...

How could Jimmy ever criticize me? l'm his mama.

Source: In The Book of Quotes, by...

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Karen Horney: Concern should drive...

Karen Horney: Concern should drive...

Concern should drive us into action and not into depression.

Source: Seduction and...

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Han Suyin: Exploitation and oppression...

Han Suyin: Exploitation and oppression...

Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called...

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Angela Carter: If Miss means...

Angela Carter: If Miss means...

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink,...

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Willa Cather: Religion and art...

Willa Cather: Religion and art...

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are...

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Brigid Brophy: To my mind,...

Brigid Brophy: To my mind,...

To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth...

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Jane Rule: The real power...

Jane Rule: The real power...

The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability...

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Barbara De Angelis: The more connections...

Barbara De Angelis: The more connections...

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and...

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Meridel Le Sueur: These are the...

Meridel Le Sueur: These are the...

These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and...

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Anais Nin: There are very...

Anais Nin: There are very...

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them...

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Ellen Glasgow: I suppose I...

Ellen Glasgow: I suppose I...

I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things that I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I...

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