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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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Erma Bombeck: When humor goes,...

Erma Bombeck: When humor goes,...

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Dorothy Dix: It is only...

Dorothy Dix: It is only...

It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little...

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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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Dorothy Parker: All I say...

Dorothy Parker: All I say...

All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You...

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Dorothy Uhnak: It's funny how...

Dorothy Uhnak: It's funny how...

It's funny how your initial approach to a person can determine your feelings toward them, no matter what facts develop...

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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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Irene Peter: Life is entirely...

Irene Peter: Life is entirely...

Life is entirely too time-consuming.

Source:
-- Irene Peter, (Jan 0 0-0), US...

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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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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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Helen Rowland: Marrying an old...

Helen Rowland: Marrying an old...

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

Source: Reflections...

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Oriana Fallaci: Listening to someone...

Oriana Fallaci: Listening to someone...

Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you...

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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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Toni Cade Bambara: I tend to...

Toni Cade Bambara: I tend to...

I tend to agree that celibacy for a time is worth considering, for sex is dirty if all it means is winning a man,...

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Emily Blackwell: Health has its...

Emily Blackwell: Health has its...

Health has its science as well as disease. . .

Source: Written with her sister...

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Estelle Ramey: We will have...

Estelle Ramey: We will have...

We will have equality when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.

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Joyce Brothers: Accept that all...

Joyce Brothers: Accept that all...

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can -- and surely will at times -- fail. I think we should follow a...

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Joyce Brothers: Psychologically, having it...

Joyce Brothers: Psychologically, having it...

Psychologically, having it all is not a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are...

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Gertrude Stein: What is the...

Gertrude Stein: What is the...

What is the answer? [Silence] In that case, what is the question?

Source: Her...

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