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Fran Lebowitz: Original thought is...

Fran Lebowitz: Original thought is...

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly...

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Janet Flanner: The older women...

Janet Flanner: The older women...

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were...

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Shirley Conran: I would rather...

Shirley Conran: I would rather...

I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.

Source: Superwoman, 1975.
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Dorothy Thompson: The kind of...

Dorothy Thompson: The kind of...

The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed...

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Maya Angelou: A bird doesn't...

Maya Angelou: A bird doesn't...

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

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Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham: [The] legitimate office...

Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham: [The] legitimate office...

[The] legitimate office [of the human face] is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of...

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Mary Austin: Genius . ....

Mary Austin: Genius . ....

Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all...

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Anna Sewell: Master said, God...

Anna Sewell: Master said, God...

Master said, God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves; but He gave animals...

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Amy Tan: If you can't...

Amy Tan: If you can't...

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

Source: In Words of Women...

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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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Eleanor H Porter: Hold up to...

Eleanor H Porter: Hold up to...

Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out . . . People radiate what is in their...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: His mother had...

Lois McMaster Bujold: His mother had...

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: I could not,...

Eleanor Roosevelt: I could not,...

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived...

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Edith Clara Summerskill: Nagging is the...

Edith Clara Summerskill: Nagging is the...

Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.

Source: Speech, 1960.
-- Edith...

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Toni Cade Bambara: The story is...

Toni Cade Bambara: The story is...

The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.

Source: The Writer on Her...

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Barbara De Angelis: Marriage is not...

Barbara De Angelis: Marriage is not...

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your...

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Annie Elizabeth Delany: Once in a...

Annie Elizabeth Delany: Once in a...

Once in a while, God sends a good white person my way, even to this day. I think it's God's way of keeping me from...

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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: Learn to get...

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: Learn to get...

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a...

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George Eliot: But what we...

George Eliot: But what we...

But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for...

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Jane Rule: The real power...

Jane Rule: The real power...

The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability...

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