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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The loneliness you...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The loneliness you...

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's...

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Elsa Maxwell: Under pressure, people...

Elsa Maxwell: Under pressure, people...

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being...

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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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Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua: What we say...

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua: What we say...

What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands and...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Borrowed thoughts, like...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: Borrowed thoughts, like...

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

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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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Grace Paley: I was a...

Grace Paley: I was a...

I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.

Source:...

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Katherine F Gerould: We put [young...

Katherine F Gerould: We put [young...

We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy...

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Irene Peter: Life is entirely...

Irene Peter: Life is entirely...

Life is entirely too time-consuming.

Source:
-- Irene Peter, (Jan 0 0-0), US...

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Peace Pilgrim: Pure love is...

Peace Pilgrim: Pure love is...

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

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Andrea Dworkin: Childbearing is glorified...

Andrea Dworkin: Childbearing is glorified...

Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.

Source: Pornography,...

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Susan Sontag: I was not...

Susan Sontag: I was not...

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my...

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Elizabeth Hardwick: Letters are useful...

Elizabeth Hardwick: Letters are useful...

Letters are useful as a means of expressing the ideal self. . . . In letters we can reform without practice, beg...

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Diana Vreeland: [Blue jeans are]...

Diana Vreeland: [Blue jeans are]...

[Blue jeans are] the most beautiful things since the gondola.

Source: In NY Times,...

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Judith Crist: Amid all the...

Judith Crist: Amid all the...

Amid all the easily loved darlings of Charlie Brown's circle, obstreperous Lucy holds a special place in my heart. She...

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Fran Lebowitz: Having been unpopular...

Fran Lebowitz: Having been unpopular...

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publication.

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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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Dorothy Parker: [We look like]...

Dorothy Parker: [We look like]...

[We look like] a road company of the Last Supper.

Source: On lunching with James...

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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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