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Adelle Davis: We are indeed...

Adelle Davis: We are indeed...

We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we...

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Joanna Field: I used to...

Joanna Field: I used to...

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

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Anita Loos: I'm furious about...

Anita Loos: I'm furious about...

I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are...

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Elinor Glyn: American husbands are...

Elinor Glyn: American husbands are...

American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily...

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Jane Fonda: When you can't...

Jane Fonda: When you can't...

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.

Source: In The...

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Liza Minnelli: In Hollywood now...

Liza Minnelli: In Hollywood now...

In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, Did he leave a will? but Did he leave a...

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Joan Rivers: If God wanted...

Joan Rivers: If God wanted...

If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.

Source: From a...

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Zora Neale Hurston: I am not...

Zora Neale Hurston: I am not...

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind...

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Edith Sitwell: Poetry ennobles the...

Edith Sitwell: Poetry ennobles the...

Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell....

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Janis Joplin: You got to...

Janis Joplin: You got to...

You got to get it while you can. . .

Source: Get It While You Can.
-- Janis...

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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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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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Jacqueline Bisset: I want to...

Jacqueline Bisset: I want to...

I want to keep my attractiveness as long as I can. It has to do with vitality, and energy and interest. We all lose...

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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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Audre Lorde: The learning process...

Audre Lorde: The learning process...

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

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Molly Ivins: With politicians, artful...

Molly Ivins: With politicians, artful...

With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright be.

Source: ...

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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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Katherine F Gerould: Civilization is merely...

Katherine F Gerould: Civilization is merely...

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty...

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Alice Embree: The mass media...

Alice Embree: The mass media...

The mass media molds everyone into more passive roles, into roles of more frantic consuming, into human beings with...

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Barbara Sher: Every single one...

Barbara Sher: Every single one...

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do -- can love things that no one else can love. We are like...

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