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Caroline Sheridan Norton: God made all...

Caroline Sheridan Norton: God made all...

God made all pleasures innocent.

Source: The Lady of LaGaraye, Pt. 1, 1862.
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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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Edith Sitwell: Good taste is...

Edith Sitwell: Good taste is...

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

Source: In Quote (Anderson), 24 Mar...

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Emily Dickinson: Ample make this...

Emily Dickinson: Ample make this...

Ample make this Bed --
Make this Bed with Awe --
In it wait till Judgment break
Excellent and...

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Yoko Ono: All my concerts...

Yoko Ono: All my concerts...

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their...

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Judy Collins: I Iook in...

Judy Collins: I Iook in...

I Iook in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

Source: Secret...

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Margaret Atwood: We thought we...

Margaret Atwood: We thought we...

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

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Margaret Atwood: If I were...

Margaret Atwood: If I were...

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints...

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Margaret Atwood: The beginning of...

Margaret Atwood: The beginning of...

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not Am I really that oppressed? but Am I really that...

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Elizabeth Gaskell: Sometimes one likes...

Elizabeth Gaskell: Sometimes one likes...

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their...

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Toni Cade Bambara: Revolution begins with...

Toni Cade Bambara: Revolution begins with...

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations...

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Toni Cade Bambara: Writing, like dreams,...

Toni Cade Bambara: Writing, like dreams,...

Writing, like dreams, confronts, pushes you up against the evasions, self-deceptions, investments in opinions and...

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Brigid Brophy: To my mind,...

Brigid Brophy: To my mind,...

To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth...

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Estelle Ramey: We will have...

Estelle Ramey: We will have...

We will have equality when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.

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Joyce Brothers: Psychologically, having it...

Joyce Brothers: Psychologically, having it...

Psychologically, having it all is not a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are...

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Joyce Brothers: If your energy...

Joyce Brothers: If your energy...

If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously...

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Mary Renault: How can people...

Mary Renault: How can people...

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

Source: The King Must...

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Ayn Rand: The hardest thing...

Ayn Rand: The hardest thing...

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to...

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Sarah Orne Jewett: In the life...

Sarah Orne Jewett: In the life...

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or...

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Mary McCarthy: The suspense of...

Mary McCarthy: The suspense of...

The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will...

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