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Maxine Kumin: Cherish your wilderness....

Maxine Kumin: Cherish your wilderness....

Cherish your wilderness.

Source: You Are in Bear Country, The Long Approach,...

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Jane Seymour: Beauty is a...

Jane Seymour: Beauty is a...

Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong...

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Christiane Collange: How many women...

Christiane Collange: How many women...

How many women are ready to admit that they are capable of changing the course of their existence by simply taking...

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Jane Bryant Quinn: The shortest recorded...

Jane Bryant Quinn: The shortest recorded...

The shortest recorded period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the...

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Mignon McLaughlin: Every society honors...

Mignon McLaughlin: Every society honors...

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Source: The...

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Marya Mannes: It's never what...

Marya Mannes: It's never what...

It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

Source: In The...

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Shana Alexander: The sad truth...

Shana Alexander: The sad truth...

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Source: The Feminine Eye,...

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Phyllis George: Crafts make us...

Phyllis George: Crafts make us...

Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: To be loved...

Minna Thomas Antrim: To be loved...

To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.

Source:...

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Gretel Ehrlich: To rise above...

Gretel Ehrlich: To rise above...

To rise above tree line is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into birdsong, bog orchids, willows, and...

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Liz Smith: What you become...

Liz Smith: What you become...

What you become is what counts.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for Success,...

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Elizabeth Hardwick: Letters are useful...

Elizabeth Hardwick: Letters are useful...

Letters are useful as a means of expressing the ideal self. . . . In letters we can reform without practice, beg...

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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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Judith Martin: Allowing an unimportant...

Judith Martin: Allowing an unimportant...

Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace.

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Harriet Martineau: Laws and customs...

Harriet Martineau: Laws and customs...

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and...

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Helen Rowland: A man loses...

Helen Rowland: A man loses...

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.

Source: In...

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Belle Livingstone: Like Moses, I...

Belle Livingstone: Like Moses, I...

Like Moses, I wasn't born. l was found.

Source: Belle Out of Order, Pt. 1, Ch. I,...

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Katharine Whitehorn: When it comes...

Katharine Whitehorn: When it comes...

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe,...

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Elsa Maxwell: Seeing unhappiness in...

Elsa Maxwell: Seeing unhappiness in...

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a...

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Peace Pilgrim: Worry is a...

Peace Pilgrim: Worry is a...

Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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