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Lady Marguerite Blessington: The vices of...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: The vices of...

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for errors; and those of the poor and lowly, for...

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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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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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Miriam Beard: Wherever we go,...

Miriam Beard: Wherever we go,...

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as the bizarre. Things astonish us,...

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Elizabeth Janeway: I admire people...

Elizabeth Janeway: I admire people...

I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. . . . They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar 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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Emmeline Pankhurst: You have to...

Emmeline Pankhurst: You have to...

You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to...

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Helen Lawrenson: Most of today's...

Helen Lawrenson: Most of today's...

Most of today's film actress are typical of a mass-production age: living dolls who look as if they came off an...

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Fran Lebowitz: Original thought is...

Fran Lebowitz: Original thought is...

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly...

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Adela Rogers St Johns: Happiness is a...

Adela Rogers St Johns: Happiness is a...

Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky.

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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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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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Helen Rowland: There aren't any...

Helen Rowland: There aren't any...

There aren't any embarrassing questions - only embarrassing answers.

Source: New...

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Lynn Caine: After my husband...

Lynn Caine: After my husband...

After my husband died, I felt like one of those spiraled shells washed upon the beach . . . Poke a straw through the...

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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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Susan Sontag: Ours is a...

Susan Sontag: Ours is a...

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory...

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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: Childbearing is glorified...

Andrea Dworkin: Childbearing is glorified...

Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.

Source: Pornography,...

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Molly Ivins: Being slightly paranoid...

Molly Ivins: Being slightly paranoid...

Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant -- it tends to get worse.

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Elizabeth Fishel: A sister is...

Elizabeth Fishel: A sister is...

A sister is both your mirror -- and your opposite.

Source: People Magazine, 2 Jun...

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