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Fran Lebowitz: Having been unpopular...

Fran Lebowitz: Having been unpopular...

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publication.

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Fran Lebowitz: Children make the...

Fran Lebowitz: Children make the...

Children make the most desirable opponents in Scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to...

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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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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 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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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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Lynn Caine: Since every death...

Lynn Caine: Since every death...

Since every death diminishes a little, we grieve -- not so much for the death as for...

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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison: Kindness and intelligence...

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison: Kindness and intelligence...

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of...

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Dorothy Parker: Gratitude -- the...

Dorothy Parker: Gratitude -- the...

Gratitude -- the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.

Source: In...

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Dorothy Parker: And there was...

Dorothy Parker: And there was...

And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right...

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Roseanne Barr: Women should try...

Roseanne Barr: Women should try...

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space...

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Marian Anderson: The minute a...

Marian Anderson: The minute a...

The minute a person whose word means a great deal dares to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others...

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Ethel Merman: She's OK if...

Ethel Merman: She's OK if...

She's OK if you like talent.

Source: On her friend Mary Martin; In Words of Women...

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Britney Spears: I'm not really...

Britney Spears: I'm not really...

I'm not really doing anything different this time around but I am really growing up, as a person and that just all...

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Hannah Cowley: The charms of...

Hannah Cowley: The charms of...

The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they...

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Emma Lazarus: Still on Israel's...

Emma Lazarus: Still on Israel's...

Still on Israel's head forlorn,
Every nation heaps its scorn.


Source: The...

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Maxine Kumin: Cherish your wilderness....

Maxine Kumin: Cherish your wilderness....

Cherish your wilderness.

Source: You Are in Bear Country, The Long Approach,...

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Audre Lorde: Life is very...

Audre Lorde: Life is very...

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

Source: My Words...

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Edith Nesbitt: Time and space...

Edith Nesbitt: Time and space...

Time and space are only forms of thought.

Source: The Story of the Amulet,...

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Tallulah Bankhead: I've been called...

Tallulah Bankhead: I've been called...

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

Source: Tallulah, ch. 15,...

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