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Bette Davis: I am doomed...

Bette Davis: I am doomed...

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The...

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Shirley Booth: Actors should be...

Shirley Booth: Actors should be...

Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is fifty percent of the...

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May Sarton: The minute one...

May Sarton: The minute one...

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

Source: Mrs. Stevens...

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Georgia Douglas Johnson: I battered the...

Georgia Douglas Johnson: I battered the...

I battered the cordons around me
And cradled my wings on the breeze,
Then soared to the uttermost...

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Anna Pavlova: What exactly is...

Anna Pavlova: What exactly is...

What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is...

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Roseanne Barr: A guy is...

Roseanne Barr: A guy is...

A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta...

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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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Mignon McLaughlin: Every society honors...

Mignon McLaughlin: Every society honors...

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Source: The...

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Dorothy Thompson: The kind of...

Dorothy Thompson: The kind of...

The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed...

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Susan Sontag: The camera makes...

Susan Sontag: The camera makes...

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's...

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher: One of the...

Dorothy Canfield Fisher: One of the...

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being...

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Judith Martin: Allowing an unimportant...

Judith Martin: Allowing an unimportant...

Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace.

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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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Simone de Beauvoir: I tore myself...

Simone de Beauvoir: I tore myself...

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded...

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Colette Dowling: The woman who...

Colette Dowling: The woman who...

The woman who has sprung free has emotional mobility. She is able to move toward the things that are satisfying to...

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Marsha Sinetar: Rather than denying...

Marsha Sinetar: Rather than denying...

Rather than denying problems, focus inventively, intentionally on what solutions might look or feel like. . . . Our...

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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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Dorothy Parker: Seventy-two suburbs in...

Dorothy Parker: Seventy-two suburbs in...

Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.

Source: Of Los Angeles, but others are...

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Ada Louise Huxtable: Summer is the...

Ada Louise Huxtable: Summer is the...

Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the...

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Diana Vreeland: What do I...

Diana Vreeland: What do I...

What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks...

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