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Elizabeth Taylor: I feel very...

Elizabeth Taylor: I feel very...

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind...

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Marjorie Main: I can't make...

Marjorie Main: I can't make...

I can't make Pa change and be neat, so I'll have to change and be dirty. Been peace in this house ever...

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Edith Sitwell: My poems are...

Edith Sitwell: My poems are...

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

Source: Collected Poems.
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Edith Sitwell: I am patient...

Edith Sitwell: I am patient...

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Source: In...

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Helen Lawrenson: Most of today's...

Helen Lawrenson: Most of today's...

Most of today's film actress are typical of a mass-production age: living dolls who look as if they came off an...

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Helen Gurley Brown: The only thing...

Helen Gurley Brown: The only thing...

The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very...

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Helen Gurley Brown: You can have...

Helen Gurley Brown: You can have...

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

Source: In Words...

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Robin Morgan: Knowledge is power....

Robin Morgan: Knowledge is power....

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of...

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Jean Kerr: The real menace...

Jean Kerr: The real menace...

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a...

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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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Erma Bombeck: When humor goes,...

Erma Bombeck: When humor goes,...

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Anna Quindlen: Women are the...

Anna Quindlen: Women are the...

Women are the glue that holds our day-to-day world together.

Source: In Words of...

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Renata Adler: No one ever...

Renata Adler: No one ever...

No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a...

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Dorothy Thompson: The instinct to...

Dorothy Thompson: The instinct to...

The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.

Source: In...

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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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Delphine de Girardin: To love the...

Delphine de Girardin: To love the...

To love the one who loves you,
To admire the one who admires you,
In a word, to be the idol of one's idol,
Is...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: People seem to...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: People seem to...

People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable...

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Phyllis George: The most popular...

Phyllis George: The most popular...

The most popular labor-saving device is still money.

Source: In The Last Word - A...

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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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Minna Thomas Antrim: Man forgives woman...

Minna Thomas Antrim: Man forgives woman...

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

Source: Naked Truth and...

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