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Helen Gurley Brown: Beauty can't amuse...

Helen Gurley Brown: Beauty can't amuse...

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking -- can.

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Christiane Collange: Common sense is...

Christiane Collange: Common sense is...

Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most under-employed, talent in the...

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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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Jill Johnston: Telling it like...

Jill Johnston: Telling it like...

Telling it like it is means telling it like it was and how it is now that it isn't what it was to the is now...

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Marya Mannes: Nobody objects to...

Marya Mannes: Nobody objects to...

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist so long as she manages to also be a good wife,...

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Dorothy Parker: And there was...

Dorothy Parker: And there was...

And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right...

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Liz Smith: What you become...

Liz Smith: What you become...

What you become is what counts.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for Success,...

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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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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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Rebecca West: God forbid that...

Rebecca West: God forbid that...

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

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Gertrude Stein: Let me listen...

Gertrude Stein: Let me listen...

Let me listen to me and not them.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for Success,...

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Sylvia Plath: I shut my...

Sylvia Plath: I shut my...

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born again.


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Margaret Atwood: If the national...

Margaret Atwood: If the national...

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid...

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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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Eva Figes: The much vaunted...

Eva Figes: The much vaunted...

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices -- against half the human race -- that are...

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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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Amy Tan: In America nobody...

Amy Tan: In America nobody...

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

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Amy Tan: If you can't...

Amy Tan: If you can't...

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

Source: In Words of Women...

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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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Lois McMaster Bujold: Experience suggests it...

Lois McMaster Bujold: Experience suggests it...

Experience suggests it doesn?t matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive....

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