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Lily Tomlin: If love is...

Lily Tomlin: If love is...

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Source: In Webster's...

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Goldie Hawn: I must say...

Goldie Hawn: I must say...

I must say that the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the...

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Rebecca West: There is no...

Rebecca West: There is no...

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is...

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Shana Alexander: Though a plane...

Shana Alexander: Though a plane...

Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have...

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Shana Alexander: Evolution is fascinating...

Shana Alexander: Evolution is fascinating...

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single...

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Margaret Bourke-White: War correspondents ....

Margaret Bourke-White: War correspondents ....

War correspondents . . . see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on to...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Modern historians are...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: Modern historians are...

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Borrowed thoughts, like...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: Borrowed thoughts, like...

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: We never respect...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: We never respect...

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

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Harriet Lerner: Although the connections...

Harriet Lerner: Although the connections...

Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political...

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Simone de Beauvoir: I tore myself...

Simone de Beauvoir: I tore myself...

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded...

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Christina Baldwin: How we remember,...

Christina Baldwin: How we remember,...

How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: Doing all we...

Minna Thomas Antrim: Doing all we...

Doing all we can to promote our friend's happiness is better than to continually drink to his...

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Lucy Stone: In education, in...

Lucy Stone: In education, in...

In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business...

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Babe Didrikson Zaharias: That little white...

Babe Didrikson Zaharias: That little white...

That little white ball won't move until you hit it, and there's nothing you can do after it has...

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Marge Piercy: The pitcher cries...

Marge Piercy: The pitcher cries...

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

Source:...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: I believe that...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: I believe that...

I believe that what women resent is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: It takes as...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: It takes as...

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: When one is...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: When one is...

When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot touch others.

Source: Gift From...

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Peggy Noonan: Beware the politically...

Peggy Noonan: Beware the politically...

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their...

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