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Barbara Stanwyck: Sponsors obviously care...

Barbara Stanwyck: Sponsors obviously care...

Sponsors obviously care more about a ninety-second commercial and want to pay you more than any guest star gets for a...

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Emily Dickinson: The soul should...

Emily Dickinson: The soul should...

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

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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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Joni Mitchell: You know that...

Joni Mitchell: You know that...

You know that it never has been easy
Whether you do or do not resign
Whether you travel the breadth of the...

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Katherine Dunham: I wasn't concerned...

Katherine Dunham: I wasn't concerned...

I wasn't concerned about the hardships, because I always felt I was doing what I had to do, what I wanted to do and...

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Cornelia Otis Skinner: One learns in...

Cornelia Otis Skinner: One learns in...

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

Source: In An...

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Cornelia Otis Skinner: Women's virtue is...

Cornelia Otis Skinner: Women's virtue is...

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

Source: In Paris '90.
-- Cornelia...

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Britney Spears: There's no master...

Britney Spears: There's no master...

There's no master plan! I'm just gonna be me and hope it all works out!

Source:...

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Beth Henley: And all writing...

Beth Henley: And all writing...

And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it...

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Emily Dickinson: Nods from the...

Emily Dickinson: Nods from the...

Nods from the Gilded pointers --
Nods from the Seconds slim --
Decades of Arrogance between
The Dial life...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The loneliness you...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The loneliness you...

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's...

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Grace Paley: You know the...

Grace Paley: You know the...

You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.

Source: Enormous...

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Dorothea Brande: Man's mind is...

Dorothea Brande: Man's mind is...

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Source:...

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Letty Cottin Pogrebin: Lifestyles and sex...

Letty Cottin Pogrebin: Lifestyles and sex...

Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small...

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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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Fran Lebowitz: Success didn't spoil...

Fran Lebowitz: Success didn't spoil...

Success didn't spoil me; I've always been insufferable.

Source: In An Uncommon...

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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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Helen Keller: . . ....

Helen Keller: . . ....

. . . and we could never learn to be brave and patient, if there was only joy in the...

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Andrea Dworkin: Poetry, the genre...

Andrea Dworkin: Poetry, the genre...

Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a...

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