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Enid Bagnold: A father is...

Enid Bagnold: A father is...

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back...

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Pearl Buck: I don't wait...

Pearl Buck: I don't wait...

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to...

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Annie Dillard: The body of...

Annie Dillard: The body of...

The body of literature, with its limits and edges, exists outside some people and inside others. Only after the writer...

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Rachel Field: I've seen public...

Rachel Field: I've seen public...

I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

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Margery Allingham: Mourning is not...

Margery Allingham: Mourning is not...

Mourning is not forgetting. . . . It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and...

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Nella Larsen: Why couldn't she...

Nella Larsen: Why couldn't she...

Why couldn't she have two lives, or why couldn't she be satisfied in one place?

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Margaret Truman: It's only when...

Margaret Truman: It's only when...

It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home it's only then...

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Enid Bagnold: Dead news like...

Enid Bagnold: Dead news like...

Dead news like dead love has no phoenix in its ashes.

Source: National Velvet/...

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Margaret Atwood: . . ....

Margaret Atwood: . . ....

. . . time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee. . . . I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the...

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Sylvia Plath: Too much attention...

Sylvia Plath: Too much attention...

Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always...

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Margaret Atwood: If the national...

Margaret Atwood: If the national...

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid...

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Katherine Anne Porter: One of the...

Katherine Anne Porter: One of the...

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Eva Figes: Sadly, man recognises...

Eva Figes: Sadly, man recognises...

Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he...

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Maxine Hong Kingston: The sweat of...

Maxine Hong Kingston: The sweat of...

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the...

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Helen Rowland: A fool and...

Helen Rowland: A fool and...

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Source: A Guide to Men, First Interlude ...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: It is the...

Barbara Ehrenreich: It is the...

It is the marketplace that calls most clearly for men to be softer, more narcissistic and receptive, and the new man...

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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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Peggy Noonan: A great speech...

Peggy Noonan: A great speech...

A great speech is literature.

Source: In Ms. Magazine, 1 Dec 1988.
-- Peggy...

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Belle Livingstone: Much has been...

Belle Livingstone: Much has been...

Much has been written about the beauty, the stillness, the terror of the desert but Iittle about its...

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Dorothea Brande: Man's mind is...

Dorothea Brande: Man's mind is...

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Source:...

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