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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Praise is the...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: Praise is the...

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.

Source: In And I...

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Christina Baldwin: Change is the...

Christina Baldwin: Change is the...

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Source: One...

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Alice Koller: I've arrived at...

Alice Koller: I've arrived at...

I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I...

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Katherine F Gerould: The principle of...

Katherine F Gerould: The principle of...

The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us a new combination of...

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Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham: The human face...

Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham: The human face...

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. . . . It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience...

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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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Jane Addams: The excellent becomes...

Jane Addams: The excellent becomes...

The excellent becomes the permanent.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Susan Faludi: As it turns...

Susan Faludi: As it turns...

As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment...

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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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Katharine Whitehorn: The easiest way...

Katharine Whitehorn: The easiest way...

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

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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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Virgilia Peterson: However often marriage...

Virgilia Peterson: However often marriage...

However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of heart and nerve and fiber,...

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Agnes Repplier: People who cannot...

Agnes Repplier: People who cannot...

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

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Jean Kerr: I feel about...

Jean Kerr: I feel about...

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to...

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Fran Lebowitz: Having been unpopular...

Fran Lebowitz: Having been unpopular...

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publication.

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Mignon McLaughlin: Every society honors...

Mignon McLaughlin: Every society honors...

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Source: The...

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Marilyn Monroe: Fame will go...

Marilyn Monroe: Fame will go...

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's...

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Liv Ullmann: Hollywood is loneliness...

Liv Ullmann: Hollywood is loneliness...

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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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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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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