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June Singer: Is it sufficient...

June Singer: Is it sufficient...

Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall we look and see what is under the hood? Most people...

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Maxine Hong Kingston: The sweat of...

Maxine Hong Kingston: The sweat of...

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the...

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Sylvia Plath: Too much attention...

Sylvia Plath: Too much attention...

Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always...

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Sylvia Plath: There must be...

Sylvia Plath: There must be...

There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

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Anita Loos: I'm furious about...

Anita Loos: I'm furious about...

I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are...

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Gail Godwin: Actors between plays...

Gail Godwin: Actors between plays...

Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit.

Source: The...

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Jane Austen: The little bit...

Jane Austen: The little bit...

The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much...

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Gertrude Stein: One does not...

Gertrude Stein: One does not...

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

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Louisa May Alcott: A little kingdom...

Louisa May Alcott: A little kingdom...

A little kingdom I possess,
Where thoughts and feelings dwell;
And very hard the task I find
Of governing it...

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Elizabeth II: We lost the...

Elizabeth II: We lost the...

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding...

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Francoise Sagan: Art must take...

Francoise Sagan: Art must take...

Art must take reality by surprise.

Source: Writers at Work
-- Francoise Sagan,...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: All virtues come...

Lois McMaster Bujold: All virtues come...

All virtues come down to courage, at the sharp end of the sword. But courage must be tempered by prudence. Courage...

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M F K Fisher: Sharing food with...

M F K Fisher: Sharing food with...

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in...

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Adelle Davis: We are indeed...

Adelle Davis: We are indeed...

We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we...

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Joanna Field: I used to...

Joanna Field: I used to...

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

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Rose Tremain: Kept falling in...

Rose Tremain: Kept falling in...

Kept falling in and out of it [sleep] like out of a boat or a tipping hammock.

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Enid Bagnold: Dead news like...

Enid Bagnold: Dead news like...

Dead news like dead love has no phoenix in its ashes.

Source: National Velvet/...

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Joyce Carol Oates: Where we come...

Joyce Carol Oates: Where we come...

Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us...

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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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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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