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Margaret Atwood: The answers you...

Margaret Atwood: The answers you...

The answers you get from literature depend upon the questions you pose.

Source: In...

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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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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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Ouida: Petty laws breed...

Ouida: Petty laws breed...

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos, Moths, 1884.
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Lois McMaster Bujold: His mother had...

Lois McMaster Bujold: His mother had...

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized...

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: It is not...

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: It is not...

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties,...

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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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Elinor Glyn: He had that...

Elinor Glyn: He had that...

He had that nameless charm, with a strong magnetism, which can only be called It.''

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Angela Carter: If Miss means...

Angela Carter: If Miss means...

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink,...

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Toni Cade Bambara: I tend to...

Toni Cade Bambara: I tend to...

I tend to agree that celibacy for a time is worth considering, for sex is dirty if all it means is winning a man,...

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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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Lillian Carter: How could Jimmy...

Lillian Carter: How could Jimmy...

How could Jimmy ever criticize me? l'm his mama.

Source: In The Book of Quotes, by...

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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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Emily Blackwell: Health has its...

Emily Blackwell: Health has its...

Health has its science as well as disease. . .

Source: Written with her sister...

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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: Learn to get...

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: Learn to get...

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a...

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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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June Singer: Despite the continuing...

June Singer: Despite the continuing...

Despite the continuing expansion or even explosion of information, there will forever be limits beyond which the...

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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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Lily Tomlin: Sometimes I worry...

Lily Tomlin: Sometimes I worry...

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

Source: In Webster's...

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