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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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Amy Tan: In America nobody...

Amy Tan: In America nobody...

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

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Mary Stewart: The best way...

Mary Stewart: The best way...

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you...

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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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Margaret Truman: He was prouder...

Margaret Truman: He was prouder...

He was prouder still to be a member of that even more restricted group, Uncle Sam Rayburn's Board of Education the...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: Experience suggests it...

Lois McMaster Bujold: Experience suggests it...

Experience suggests it doesn?t matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive....

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Barbara De Angelis: The more connections...

Barbara De Angelis: The more connections...

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and...

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Ayn Rand: Money demands that...

Ayn Rand: Money demands that...

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their...

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Ariel Durant: It is good...

Ariel Durant: It is good...

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on...

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Angela Carter: If Miss means...

Angela Carter: If Miss means...

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink,...

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Janet Frame: Electricity, the peril...

Janet Frame: Electricity, the peril...

Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day. . .

Source:...

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Judy Blume: No place has...

Judy Blume: No place has...

No place has delicatessen like New York.

Source: Are You There, God? It's Me,...

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June Singer: Despite the continuing...

June Singer: Despite the continuing...

Despite the continuing expansion or even explosion of information, there will forever be limits beyond which the...

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Gertrude Stein: Let me listen...

Gertrude Stein: Let me listen...

Let me listen to me and not them.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for Success,...

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Clara Barton: . . ....

Clara Barton: . . ....

. . . the door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.

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Midge Decter: The hatred of...

Midge Decter: The hatred of...

The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be...

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Shana Alexander: The Sugarplum Fairy...

Shana Alexander: The Sugarplum Fairy...

The Sugarplum Fairy herself could have made no grander gesture.

Source: On Ford...

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Delphine de Girardin: To love the...

Delphine de Girardin: To love the...

To love the one who loves you,
To admire the one who admires you,
In a word, to be the idol of one's idol,
Is...

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Irene Peter: Just because everything...

Irene Peter: Just because everything...

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.

Source: In...

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