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Barbara Cartland: Of course they...

Barbara Cartland: Of course they...

Of course they have, or I wouldn't be sitting here talking to someone like you.

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Judith Rossner: Identity is a...

Judith Rossner: Identity is a...

Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I am here, a mind...

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Judith Rossner: He always said...

Judith Rossner: He always said...

He always said she was smart, but their conversations were a mined field in which at any moment she might make the...

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Lawana Blackwell: I've grown to...

Lawana Blackwell: I've grown to...

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: You don't pay...

Lois McMaster Bujold: You don't pay...

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in...

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Madeleine L'Engle: Because I am...

Madeleine L'Engle: Because I am...

Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: I don't confuse...

Lois McMaster Bujold: I don't confuse...

I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow isthe higher achievement.

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: If the study...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: If the study...

If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those...

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George Eliot: And when a...

George Eliot: And when a...

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be...

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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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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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Joanna Field: I used to...

Joanna Field: I used to...

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

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Muriel Spark: Be on the...

Muriel Spark: Be on the...

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

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Elizabeth Gaskell: I'll not listen...

Elizabeth Gaskell: I'll not listen...

I'll not listen to reason. . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say.

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Elizabeth Gaskell: The cloud never...

Elizabeth Gaskell: The cloud never...

The cloud never comes in the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

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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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Ursula Le Guin: He arrived at...

Ursula Le Guin: He arrived at...

He arrived at ideas the slow way, never skating over the clear, hard ice of logic, nor soaring on the slipstreams of...

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Toni Cade Bambara: When you dream,...

Toni Cade Bambara: When you dream,...

When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover...

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Brigid Brophy: The thriller is...

Brigid Brophy: The thriller is...

The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's...

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Mary Renault: How can people...

Mary Renault: How can people...

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

Source: The King Must...

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