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Susan Sontag: The only interesting...

Susan Sontag: The only interesting...

The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.

Source: In...

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Germaine Greer: Perhaps catastrophe is...

Germaine Greer: Perhaps catastrophe is...

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get...

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Emmeline Pankhurst: You have to...

Emmeline Pankhurst: You have to...

You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to...

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Barbara Stanwyck: My only problem...

Barbara Stanwyck: My only problem...

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my...

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Catherine Deneuve: Being an actor...

Catherine Deneuve: Being an actor...

Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself...

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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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Joan Baez: It seems to...

Joan Baez: It seems to...

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words...

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Ella Fitzgerald: The only thing...

Ella Fitzgerald: The only thing...

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

Source: In New York Sunday...

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Aretha Franklin: If a song's...

Aretha Franklin: If a song's...

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I...

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Emily Dickinson: The dandelion's pallid...

Emily Dickinson: The dandelion's pallid...

The dandelion's pallid tube
Astonishes the grass,
And winter instantly becomes
An infinite...

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Muriel Rukeyser: I think there...

Muriel Rukeyser: I think there...

I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a...

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Whoopi Goldberg: An actress can...

Whoopi Goldberg: An actress can...

An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.

Source: Letter...

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Mary Tyler Moore: I'm an experienced...

Mary Tyler Moore: I'm an experienced...

I'm an experienced woman; I've been around . . . well, alright, I might not've been around, but I've been . . ....

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Billie Holiday: I'm always making...

Billie Holiday: I'm always making...

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Source: In...

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Karen Carpenter: Our first single,...

Karen Carpenter: Our first single,...

Our first single, 'Ticket To Ride', was a kind of half-hit, half flop: in some places it was number one, in others it...

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Bette Midler: Writing a book...

Bette Midler: Writing a book...

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five...

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Lena Horne: It's not the...

Lena Horne: It's not the...

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Source: In The...

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Oprah Winfrey: Every day's a...

Oprah Winfrey: Every day's a...

Every day's a kick!

Source: In The Last Word - A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by...

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Billie Holiday: You can't copy...

Billie Holiday: You can't copy...

You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two...

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Billie Holiday: I can't stand...

Billie Holiday: I can't stand...

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you...

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