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Jane Wagner: Delusions of grandeur...

Jane Wagner: Delusions of grandeur...

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

Source: From an...

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Alice Childress: Who wants to...

Alice Childress: Who wants to...

Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever...

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Joan Didion: I write entirely...

Joan Didion: I write entirely...

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means, what I want, and...

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Katharine Hepburn: I never lose...

Katharine Hepburn: I never lose...

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

Source: Good Housekeeping...

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Whoopi Goldberg: [S]omehow we are...

Whoopi Goldberg: [S]omehow we are...

[S]omehow we are supposed to be credits to our race. The mere fact that I'm still around makes me a credit to my race,...

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Gilda Radner: I think dogs...

Gilda Radner: I think dogs...

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being...

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Tina Turner: I will never...

Tina Turner: I will never...

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Source: In...

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Oprah Winfrey: It isn't until...

Oprah Winfrey: It isn't until...

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are -- not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep...

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Beth Henley: And all writing...

Beth Henley: And all writing...

And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it...

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Edith Sitwell: Poetry is the...

Edith Sitwell: Poetry is the...

Poetry is the deification of reality.

Source: In Life, 4 Jan 1963.
-- Edith...

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Sarah Caldwell: Tanglewood [summer home...

Sarah Caldwell: Tanglewood [summer home...

Tanglewood [summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra] was a place where gods strode the...

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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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Natasha Josefowitz: My father died<br>many...

Natasha Josefowitz: My father died
many...

My father died
many years ago,
and yet when something special
happens to me,
I talk to him secretly
not...

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Suzanne Curchod Necker: Obstinacy is ever...

Suzanne Curchod Necker: Obstinacy is ever...

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

Source: In The Last...

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Elizabeth Fishel: Both within the...

Elizabeth Fishel: Both within the...

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare...

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Colette Dowling: The woman who...

Colette Dowling: The woman who...

The woman who has sprung free has emotional mobility. She is able to move toward the things that are satisfying to...

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Katherine F Gerould: We put [young...

Katherine F Gerould: We put [young...

We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy...

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Dorothy Parker: Seventy-two suburbs in...

Dorothy Parker: Seventy-two suburbs in...

Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.

Source: Of Los Angeles, but others are...

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Harriet Van Horne: Rarely in broadcasting...

Harriet Van Horne: Rarely in broadcasting...

Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand...

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Alice James: The success or...

Alice James: The success or...

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right...

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