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Elsa Maxwell: Seeing unhappiness in...

Elsa Maxwell: Seeing unhappiness in...

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a...

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Barbara Sher: It's essential to...

Barbara Sher: It's essential to...

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused...

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Judith Martin: Allowing an unimportant...

Judith Martin: Allowing an unimportant...

Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace.

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Peace Pilgrim: You're in a...

Peace Pilgrim: You're in a...

You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach...

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Andrea Dworkin: Erotica is simply...

Andrea Dworkin: Erotica is simply...

Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged,...

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Jessica Mitford: O death where...

Jessica Mitford: O death where...

O death where is thy sting? O grave where is thy victory? Where, indeed? Many a badly stung survivor, faced with the...

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Fran Lebowitz: Nothing succeeds like...

Fran Lebowitz: Nothing succeeds like...

Nothing succeeds like address.

Source: Metropolitan Life, The Nail Bank: Not Just...

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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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Erma Bombeck: I worry about...

Erma Bombeck: I worry about...

I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along. . . .

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Belva Lockwood: No one can...

Belva Lockwood: No one can...

No one can claim to be called Christian who gives money for the building of warships and...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: We tend not...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: We tend not...

We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope...

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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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Elizabeth Janeway: I admire people...

Elizabeth Janeway: I admire people...

I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. . . . They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and...

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Grace Paley: Rosiness is not...

Grace Paley: Rosiness is not...

Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.

Source:...

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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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Diane Sawyer: I think the...

Diane Sawyer: I think the...

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

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Barbara Walters: Wait for those...

Barbara Walters: Wait for those...

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals...

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Ouida: Could we see...

Ouida: Could we see...

Could we see when and where we would meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends...

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Eva Figes: When modern woman...

Eva Figes: When modern woman...

When modern woman discovered the orgasm it was (combined with modern birth control) perhaps the biggest single nail in...

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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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