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Lillian Carter: I know folks...

Lillian Carter: I know folks...

I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much...

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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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Ursula Le Guin: He arrived at...

Ursula Le Guin: He arrived at...

He arrived at ideas the slow way, never skating over the clear, hard ice of logic, nor soaring on the slipstreams of...

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Brigid Brophy: To my mind,...

Brigid Brophy: To my mind,...

To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth...

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Helen Rowland: A husband is...

Helen Rowland: A husband is...

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

Source: A...

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Helen Rowland: Don't waste time...

Helen Rowland: Don't waste time...

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new...

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Carolyn Heilbrun: One cannot make...

Carolyn Heilbrun: One cannot make...

One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already...

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Katharine Whitehorn: I am firm....

Katharine Whitehorn: I am firm....

I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.

Source: In The Beacon Book...

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Molly Haskell: Madness is always...

Molly Haskell: Madness is always...

Madness is always fascinating, for it reveals the ungluing we all secretly fear: the mind taking off from the body,...

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Oriana Fallaci: Glory is a...

Oriana Fallaci: Glory is a...

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is...

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June Jordan: In the name...

June Jordan: In the name...

In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and...

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Virgilia Peterson: A lady, that...

Virgilia Peterson: A lady, that...

A lady, that is an enlightened, cultivated, liberal lady,... could espouse any cause: wayward girls, social diseases,...

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Irene Thomas: Protestant women may...

Irene Thomas: Protestant women may...

Protestant women may take the Pill. Roman Catholic women must keep taking the Tablet.

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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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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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Midge Decter: The hatred of...

Midge Decter: The hatred of...

The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: An epigram is...

Minna Thomas Antrim: An epigram is...

An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.

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Elizabeth Fishel: Sisters define their...

Elizabeth Fishel: Sisters define their...

Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a...

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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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Florence King: There's no national...

Florence King: There's no national...

There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the...

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