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Edna Ferber: Only amateurs say...

Edna Ferber: Only amateurs say...

Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination...

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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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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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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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Barbara Ehrenreich: Anyone who has...

Barbara Ehrenreich: Anyone who has...

Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers...

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Helen Gurley Brown: You can have...

Helen Gurley Brown: You can have...

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

Source: In Words...

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Anna Quindlen: Women are the...

Anna Quindlen: Women are the...

Women are the glue that holds our day-to-day world together.

Source: In Words of...

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Renata Adler: No one ever...

Renata Adler: No one ever...

No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a...

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Helen Keller: My share of...

Helen Keller: My share of...

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

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Helen Keller: There is no...

Helen Keller: There is no...

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among...

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Julie Burchill: The freedom that...

Julie Burchill: The freedom that...

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and...

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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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Susan Sontag: The truth is...

Susan Sontag: The truth is...

The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton,...

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Susan Sontag: The truth is...

Susan Sontag: The truth is...

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

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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.

Source:...

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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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Anna Quindlen: It makes me...

Anna Quindlen: It makes me...

It makes me angry to think that . . . female sanitation workers will spend their days doing a job most of their...

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Molly Ivins: Being slightly paranoid...

Molly Ivins: Being slightly paranoid...

Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant -- it tends to get worse.

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Kathryn Hulme: The awesome antiphon...

Kathryn Hulme: The awesome antiphon...

The awesome antiphon swelled in the dark and expanded.

Source: On music at early...

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