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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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Helen Keller: The best and...

Helen Keller: The best and...

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the...

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Barbara Walters: Success can make...

Barbara Walters: Success can make...

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna -- or it can smooth the edges, take away the...

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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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Anne Frank: If I read...

Anne Frank: If I read...

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other people; otherwise...

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Ellen Key: The educator must...

Ellen Key: The educator must...

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the...

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Sally Kempton: It is hard...

Sally Kempton: It is hard...

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

Source: Cutting Loose,...

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Annie Dillard: Just once I...

Annie Dillard: Just once I...

Just once I wanted a task that required all the joy I had. Day after day I had noticed that if I waited long enough,...

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Emily Bronte: Love is like...

Emily Bronte: Love is like...

Love is like the wild-rose briar;
Friendship is like the holly-tree.
The holly is dark when the rose briar...

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Rose Tremain: Kept falling in...

Rose Tremain: Kept falling in...

Kept falling in and out of it [sleep] like out of a boat or a tipping hammock.

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Ruth Benedict: . ....

Ruth Benedict: . ....

. . . work even when I'm satisfied with it is never my child I love nor my servant I've brought to heel. It's always...

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Lillian Carter: I know folks...

Lillian Carter: I know folks...

I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much...

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Adelle Davis: If this country...

Adelle Davis: If this country...

If this country [America] is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda...

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Emily Blackwell: Social intercourse --...

Emily Blackwell: Social intercourse --...

Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great...

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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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Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: I am convinced...

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: I am convinced...

I am convinced that we must train not only the head, but the heart and hand as well.

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Margaret Atwood: Canada was built...

Margaret Atwood: Canada was built...

Canada was built on dead beavers.

Source: National Public Radio Interview/...

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Djuna Barnes: To love without...

Djuna Barnes: To love without...

To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

Source: Nightwood, 1937.
-- Djuna...

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Eleanor H Porter: Oh, yes, the...

Eleanor H Porter: Oh, yes, the...

Oh, yes, the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about -- not matter what twas, rejoined...

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Francoise Sagan: It seems to...

Francoise Sagan: It seems to...

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the fronts people assume before one another's eyes, and the front...

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