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Emmuska Orczy: We seek him...

Emmuska Orczy: We seek him...

We seek him here, we seek him there,
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
Is he in heaven? - Is he in...

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Nella Larsen: If a man...

Nella Larsen: If a man...

If a man calls me a nigger it's his fault the first time, but mine if he has the opportunity to do it...

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Lisa Alther: If this was...

Lisa Alther: If this was...

If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert...

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: If the study...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: If the study...

If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those...

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Lydia M Child: There was a...

Lydia M Child: There was a...

There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for...

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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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Ouida: Indifference is the...

Ouida: Indifference is the...

Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.

Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos,...

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Margery Allingham: Mourning is not...

Margery Allingham: Mourning is not...

Mourning is not forgetting. . . . It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and...

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Mary Webb: It made me...

Mary Webb: It made me...

It made me gladsome to be getting some education, it being like a big window opening.

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Harper Lee: Real courage is...

Harper Lee: Real courage is...

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Borrowed thoughts, like...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: Borrowed thoughts, like...

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

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Brenda Ueland: So you see...

Brenda Ueland: So you see...

So you see the imagination needs moodling, - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and...

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Hortense Calisher: The words! I...

Hortense Calisher: The words! I...

The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

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Katherine F Gerould: We put [young...

Katherine F Gerould: We put [young...

We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy...

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Irene Peter: Just because everything...

Irene Peter: Just because everything...

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.

Source: In...

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Helen Gurley Brown: I hope I...

Helen Gurley Brown: I hope I...

I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the...

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Janet Flanner: Genius is immediate,...

Janet Flanner: Genius is immediate,...

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

Source: In The Wit & Wisdom of Women,...

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Fran Lebowitz: Children make the...

Fran Lebowitz: Children make the...

Children make the most desirable opponents in Scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to...

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Andrea Dworkin: Wild intelligence abhors...

Andrea Dworkin: Wild intelligence abhors...

Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No...

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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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