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George Eliot: But what we...

George Eliot: But what we...

But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for...

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Lydia M Child: There was a...

Lydia M Child: There was a...

There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for...

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Pearl Buck: The secret of...

Pearl Buck: The secret of...

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy...

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Katherine Paterson: Youth is a...

Katherine Paterson: Youth is a...

Youth is a mortal wound

Source: Jacob Have I Loved, 1980.
-- Katherine Paterson,...

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Amy Tan: Who knows where...

Amy Tan: Who knows where...

Who knows where inspiration comes from? Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the...

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Amy Tan: How can you...

Amy Tan: How can you...

How can you say luck and chance are the same thing? Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes...

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Nella Larsen: It was ....

Nella Larsen: It was ....

It was . . . enough to suffer as a woman, an individual, on one's own account, without having to suffer for the race...

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Nella Larsen: If a man...

Nella Larsen: If a man...

If a man calls me a nigger it's his fault the first time, but mine if he has the opportunity to do it...

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Ruth Benedict: . ....

Ruth Benedict: . ....

. . . work even when I'm satisfied with it is never my child I love nor my servant I've brought to heel. It's always...

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Andrea Dworkin: Romantic love, in...

Andrea Dworkin: Romantic love, in...

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined...

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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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Helen Gurley Brown: I hope I...

Helen Gurley Brown: I hope I...

I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the...

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Fran Lebowitz: I must take...

Fran Lebowitz: I must take...

I must take issue with the term a mere child, for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere...

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Erma Bombeck: Never go to...

Erma Bombeck: Never go to...

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Source: In 1,911 Best Things...

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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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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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Irene Peter: Today, if you...

Irene Peter: Today, if you...

Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.

Source: In Words of...

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Florence King: People are so...

Florence King: People are so...

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that...

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Letty Cottin Pogrebin: Lifestyles and sex...

Letty Cottin Pogrebin: Lifestyles and sex...

Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small...

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June Jordan: Americans have begun...

June Jordan: Americans have begun...

Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to...

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