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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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Elizabeth Bowen: If you look...

Elizabeth Bowen: If you look...

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

Source: The Death of...

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Annie Dillard: Crystals grew inside...

Annie Dillard: Crystals grew inside...

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and...

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Mary Webb: It made me...

Mary Webb: It made me...

It made me gladsome to be getting some education, it being like a big window opening.

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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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Ruth Benedict: Culture is not...

Ruth Benedict: Culture is not...

Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.

Source: Patterns of Culture,...

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Anna Sewell: I am never...

Anna Sewell: I am never...

I am never afraid of what I know.

Source: Black Beauty, 1877.
-- Anna Sewell,...

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Mary Stewart: I reached for...

Mary Stewart: I reached for...

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful...

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Dorothy Miller Richardson: If there was...

Dorothy Miller Richardson: If there was...

If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.

Source: Pilgrimage, Vol. 11, Ch....

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Susan Warner: . . ....

Susan Warner: . . ....

. . . and many a good time we went back again, long afterward, and broke our rejected lump with great exultation to...

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Eleanor H Porter: Oh, yes, the...

Eleanor H Porter: Oh, yes, the...

Oh, yes, the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about -- not matter what twas, rejoined...

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Shirley Hazzard: Sometimes, surely, truth...

Shirley Hazzard: Sometimes, surely, truth...

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to...

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Madeleine L'Engle: Because I am...

Madeleine L'Engle: Because I am...

Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with...

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Shana Alexander: Letters are expectation...

Shana Alexander: Letters are expectation...

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

Source: The Surprises of the Mail...

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Shana Alexander: What troubles me...

Shana Alexander: What troubles me...

What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be...

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Margaret Bourke-White: If you banish...

Margaret Bourke-White: If you banish...

If you banish fear, nothing terribly bad can happen to you.

Source: In Words of...

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Phyllis George: Life is what...

Phyllis George: Life is what...

Life is what you make it: If you snooze, you lose; and if you snore, you lose more.

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Harriet Lerner: Underground issues from...

Harriet Lerner: Underground issues from...

Underground issues from one relationship or context invariably fuel our fires in another.

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Brenda Ueland: I learned that...

Brenda Ueland: I learned that...

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads...

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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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