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Shirley Conran: Life is too...

Shirley Conran: Life is too...

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

Source: Superwoman, Epigraph, 1975.
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Mary Ashton Livermore: The age looks...

Mary Ashton Livermore: The age looks...

The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a...

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Andrea Dworkin: Erotica is simply...

Andrea Dworkin: Erotica is simply...

Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged,...

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Anne Frank: If I read...

Anne Frank: If I read...

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other people; otherwise...

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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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Phyllis George: Crafts make us...

Phyllis George: Crafts make us...

Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create...

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Simone de Beauvoir: We always come...

Simone de Beauvoir: We always come...

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with...

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Hannah More: Obstacles are those...

Hannah More: Obstacles are those...

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

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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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Miriam Beard: Wherever we go,...

Miriam Beard: Wherever we go,...

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as the bizarre. Things astonish us,...

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Grace Paley: You know the...

Grace Paley: You know the...

You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.

Source: Enormous...

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Peggy Noonan: Beware the politically...

Peggy Noonan: Beware the politically...

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their...

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Katharine Whitehorn: A good listener...

Katharine Whitehorn: A good listener...

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore...

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June Jordan: In the name...

June Jordan: In the name...

In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and...

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Carol Gilligan: The blind willingness...

Carol Gilligan: The blind willingness...

The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from...

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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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Peace Pilgrim: We have all...

Peace Pilgrim: We have all...

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Source: In The...

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Marie de Sevigne: . . ....

Marie de Sevigne: . . ....

. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes...

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Margaret Anderson: Life seems to...

Margaret Anderson: Life seems to...

Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think you're beginning to live for a single aim --. ....

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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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