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Francesca Annis: I don't really...

Francesca Annis: I don't really...

I don't really have an image of myself. Now, is that true? Well, maybe I do and it's different, which is why I get...

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Cornelia Otis Skinner: Women's virtue is...

Cornelia Otis Skinner: Women's virtue is...

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

Source: In Paris '90.
-- Cornelia...

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Carol Burnett: When someone who...

Carol Burnett: When someone who...

When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it' s always a big breakthrough or a radical...

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Nadia Boulanger: Life is denied...

Nadia Boulanger: Life is denied...

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a...

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Tina Turner: I never said...

Tina Turner: I never said...

I never said Well, I don't have this and I don't have that. I said, I don't have this yet, but I'm going to get...

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Ruth Etting: Nothing else to...

Ruth Etting: Nothing else to...

Nothing else to do
but sit around and think about you
just think about you/that's all that I...

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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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Emmeline Pankhurst: There is something...

Emmeline Pankhurst: There is something...

There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it...

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Margaret Anderson: I have always...

Margaret Anderson: I have always...

I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which...

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Margaret Anderson: Life seems to...

Margaret Anderson: Life seems to...

Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think you're beginning to live for a single aim --. ....

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Helen Gurley Brown: The only thing...

Helen Gurley Brown: The only thing...

The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very...

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Jessica Mitford: Things on the...

Jessica Mitford: Things on the...

Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for...

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Jamaica Kincaid: If I actually...

Jamaica Kincaid: If I actually...

If I actually ran the world, I'd do it from the kitchen. It's not anything deliberate or a statement or anything,...

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Janet Flanner: The stench of...

Janet Flanner: The stench of...

The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of...

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Fran Lebowitz: Nothing succeeds like...

Fran Lebowitz: Nothing succeeds like...

Nothing succeeds like address.

Source: Metropolitan Life, The Nail Bank: Not Just...

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Marya Mannes: Nobody objects to...

Marya Mannes: Nobody objects to...

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist so long as she manages to also be a good wife,...

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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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Jane Welsh Carlyle: It is sad...

Jane Welsh Carlyle: It is sad...

It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any...

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Shana Alexander: What troubles me...

Shana Alexander: What troubles me...

What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be...

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Shana Alexander: Ballet's image of...

Shana Alexander: Ballet's image of...

Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and...

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