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Susan Sontag: The camera makes...

Susan Sontag: The camera makes...

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's...

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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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Florida Scott-Maxwell: It is not...

Florida Scott-Maxwell: It is not...

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but [we do know] it is our sacred...

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Harriet Lerner: Although the connections...

Harriet Lerner: Although the connections...

Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political...

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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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Alice Koller: I've arrived at...

Alice Koller: I've arrived at...

I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I...

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Katherine F Gerould: The principle of...

Katherine F Gerould: The principle of...

The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us a new combination of...

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Jill Johnston: Bisexuality is not...

Jill Johnston: Bisexuality is not...

Bisexuality is not so much a copout as a fearful compromise.

Source: Lesbian...

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Dorothy Thompson: Disillusion comes only...

Dorothy Thompson: Disillusion comes only...

Disillusion comes only to the illusioned. One cannot be disillusioned of what one never put faith...

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Julie Burchill: Fame is no...

Julie Burchill: Fame is no...

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth. . . suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than...

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Florence King: Familiarity doesn't breed...

Florence King: Familiarity doesn't breed...

Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.

Source:
-- Florence King,...

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Katharine Whitehorn: The easiest way...

Katharine Whitehorn: The easiest way...

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

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Cynthia Heimel: Never judge someone...

Cynthia Heimel: Never judge someone...

Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling...

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Carol Gilligan: In the different...

Carol Gilligan: In the different...

In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility,...

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Virgilia Peterson: However often marriage...

Virgilia Peterson: However often marriage...

However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of heart and nerve and fiber,...

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Elsa Maxwell: Laugh at yourself...

Elsa Maxwell: Laugh at yourself...

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Amy Lowell: For books are...

Amy Lowell: For books are...

For books are more than books, they are the life
The very heart and core of ages past,
The reason why men lived...

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Ntozake Shange: i found god...

Ntozake Shange: i found god...

i found god in myself
& I loved her/i loved her fiercely.


Source: a laying on of...

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Sonia Sanchez: . . ....

Sonia Sanchez: . . ....

. . . I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people.

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Ruby Dee: The kind of...

Ruby Dee: The kind of...

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within -- strength, courage,...

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