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Margaret Atwood: . . ....

Margaret Atwood: . . ....

. . . time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee. . . . I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the...

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Sylvia Plath: Too much attention...

Sylvia Plath: Too much attention...

Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always...

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Sylvia Plath: I shut my...

Sylvia Plath: I shut my...

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born again.


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Elizabeth Gaskell: Sometimes one likes...

Elizabeth Gaskell: Sometimes one likes...

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their...

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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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Eva Figes: The much vaunted...

Eva Figes: The much vaunted...

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices -- against half the human race -- that are...

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Ivy Baker Priest: The world is...

Ivy Baker Priest: The world is...

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.

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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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Mary Steichen Calderone: We are still...

Mary Steichen Calderone: We are still...

We are still a sexophobic society, afraid of the wrong things for the wrong reasons.

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Mary Steichen Calderone: I don't want...

Mary Steichen Calderone: I don't want...

I don't want to control anybody's mind or anybody's heart -- I just want to help free people from the concert of sex...

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Emily James Putnam: In contemporary society...

Emily James Putnam: In contemporary society...

In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her...

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Helene Deutsch: Their capacity for...

Helene Deutsch: Their capacity for...

Their capacity for identification is not an expression of inner poverty but of inner...

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Joyce Brothers: Psychologically, having it...

Joyce Brothers: Psychologically, having it...

Psychologically, having it all is not a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are...

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George Eliot: To have in...

George Eliot: To have in...

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular...

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Mary McCarthy: The suspense of...

Mary McCarthy: The suspense of...

The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will...

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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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Lillian Smith: Faith and doubt...

Lillian Smith: Faith and doubt...

Faith and doubt both are needed -- not as antagonists, but working side by side -- to take us around the unknown...

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Rachel Field: I've seen public...

Rachel Field: I've seen public...

I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

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Shirley Jackson: [L]et my reader...

Shirley Jackson: [L]et my reader...

[L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he...

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Shirley Jackson: It has long...

Shirley Jackson: It has long...

It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer of family wears...

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