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Helena Rubinstein: All the American...

Helena Rubinstein: All the American...

All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I...

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Virginia Graham: When some people...

Virginia Graham: When some people...

When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.

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Josephine Baker: I was learning...

Josephine Baker: I was learning...

I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them -- but at the same time I sensed the dangers....

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Hazel Scott: I think we...

Hazel Scott: I think we...

I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts. We can either...

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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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Marian Anderson: Prejudice is like...

Marian Anderson: Prejudice is like...

Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep...

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Whitney Houston: Growing around [great...

Whitney Houston: Growing around [great...

Growing around [great musicians], you just can't help it. I identified with it immediately. It was something that was...

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Millicent Fenwick: Women are on...

Millicent Fenwick: Women are on...

Women are on the outside when the door to the smoke-filled room is closed.

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Muriel Rukeyser: I think there...

Muriel Rukeyser: I think there...

I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a...

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Sonia Sanchez: The joy of...

Sonia Sanchez: The joy of...

The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I...

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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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Marilu Henner: Wherever my career...

Marilu Henner: Wherever my career...

Wherever my career takes me, I know I'll love getting there, because ever since I was 2 1/2 years old, I knew that...

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Marilu Henner: After 19 years...

Marilu Henner: After 19 years...

After 19 years of experimenting, a thousand mistakes, over 400 books, at least 200 bad diets... and a partridge in a...

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Rosalind Russell: Taking joy in...

Rosalind Russell: Taking joy in...

Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations...

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Shelley Winters: I did a...

Shelley Winters: I did a...

I did a picture in England one winter and it was so cold I almost got married.

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Barbara Stanwyck: Sponsors obviously care...

Barbara Stanwyck: Sponsors obviously care...

Sponsors obviously care more about a ninety-second commercial and want to pay you more than any guest star gets for a...

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Dorothy Gish: I mean what...

Dorothy Gish: I mean what...

I mean what good does it do anyone to kill themselves working, because the worms will get you in the...

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Adelle Davis: If this country...

Adelle Davis: If this country...

If this country [America] is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda...

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Margaret Atwood: We thought we...

Margaret Atwood: We thought we...

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

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Cynthia Ozick: To imagine the...

Cynthia Ozick: To imagine the...

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.

Source: In Words...

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