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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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Marion Zimmer Bradley: It has never...

Marion Zimmer Bradley: It has never...

It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler...

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Francoise Sagan: Art must take...

Francoise Sagan: Art must take...

Art must take reality by surprise.

Source: Writers at Work
-- Francoise Sagan,...

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Nella Larsen: She wished to...

Nella Larsen: She wished to...

She wished to find out about this hazardous business of passing, this breaking away from all that was familiar and...

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Rumer Godden: The motto was...

Rumer Godden: The motto was...

The motto was Pax, but the word was set in a circle of thorns.

Source: On a...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: His mother had...

Lois McMaster Bujold: His mother had...

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized...

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George Eliot: There is a...

George Eliot: There is a...

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy,...

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Mary Steichen Calderone: Before the child...

Mary Steichen Calderone: Before the child...

Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will...

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Emily Blackwell: Social intercourse --...

Emily Blackwell: Social intercourse --...

Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great...

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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: We need to...

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: We need to...

We need to teach the next generation of children from Day One that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's...

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Han Suyin: Exploitation and oppression...

Han Suyin: Exploitation and oppression...

Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called...

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Mae West: When you get...

Mae West: When you get...

When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.

Source: The Observer,...

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Carol Burnett: I think we're...

Carol Burnett: I think we're...

I think we're here for each other.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Whitney Houston: God gave me...

Whitney Houston: God gave me...

God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?

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Dinah Shore: I have never...

Dinah Shore: I have never...

I have never thought of participating in sports just for the sake of doing it for exercise or as a means to lose...

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Doris Day: DAY: I have...

Doris Day: DAY: I have...

DAY: I have a good job, a lovely apartment, I go out with very nice men to the best places, the finest restaurants,...

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Bette Midler: It's the heart...

Bette Midler: It's the heart...

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Source: In The...

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Margaret Cho: If we have...

Margaret Cho: If we have...

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of...

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Catherine Deneuve: I love to...

Catherine Deneuve: I love to...

I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.

Source:...

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Ella Fitzgerald: The only thing...

Ella Fitzgerald: The only thing...

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

Source: In New York Sunday...

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