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Jane Fonda: When you can't...

Jane Fonda: When you can't...

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.

Source: In The...

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Liza Minnelli: In Hollywood now...

Liza Minnelli: In Hollywood now...

In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, Did he leave a will? but Did he leave a...

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Yoko Ono: All my concerts...

Yoko Ono: All my concerts...

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their...

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Margaret Cho: Privacy and security...

Margaret Cho: Privacy and security...

Privacy and security are those things you give up when `you show the world what makes you...

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Alice Childress: Who wants to...

Alice Childress: Who wants to...

Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever...

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Rebecca West: It is queer...

Rebecca West: It is queer...

It is queer how it is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into...

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Florence King: Familiarity doesn't breed...

Florence King: Familiarity doesn't breed...

Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.

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-- Florence King,...

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Belle Livingstone: Like Moses, I...

Belle Livingstone: Like Moses, I...

Like Moses, I wasn't born. l was found.

Source: Belle Out of Order, Pt. 1, Ch. I,...

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Belle Livingstone: Odd how the...

Belle Livingstone: Odd how the...

Odd how the erotic appeal has swung away from legs; today a smart girl takes her legs for granted and gets herself a...

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Katharine Whitehorn: The best career...

Katharine Whitehorn: The best career...

The best career advice given to the young is Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing...

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Cynthia Heimel: Never judge someone...

Cynthia Heimel: Never judge someone...

Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling...

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Lynn Caine: It's wrenching enough...

Lynn Caine: It's wrenching enough...

It's wrenching enough to lose the man who is your lover, your companion, your best friend, the father of your...

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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison: Our awesome responsibility...

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison: Our awesome responsibility...

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of...

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Elsa Maxwell: The cocktail party...

Elsa Maxwell: The cocktail party...

The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil.

Source: In An...

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Peace Pilgrim: We have all...

Peace Pilgrim: We have all...

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Source: In The...

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Andrea Dworkin: Wild intelligence abhors...

Andrea Dworkin: Wild intelligence abhors...

Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No...

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Harriet Martineau: A soul occupied...

Harriet Martineau: A soul occupied...

A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Harriet Martineau: Men who pass...

Harriet Martineau: Men who pass...

Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard...

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Harriet Van Horne: Rarely in broadcasting...

Harriet Van Horne: Rarely in broadcasting...

Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand...

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Ada Louise Huxtable: Summer is the...

Ada Louise Huxtable: Summer is the...

Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the...

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