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Jessye Norman: If you send...

Jessye Norman: If you send...

If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find...

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Edith Sitwell: Good taste is...

Edith Sitwell: Good taste is...

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

Source: In Quote (Anderson), 24 Mar...

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May Swenson: I was the...

May Swenson: I was the...

I was the horse and the rider . . .

Source: The Centaur, Sts. I & 2, To Mix with...

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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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Alice Embree: The mass media...

Alice Embree: The mass media...

The mass media molds everyone into more passive roles, into roles of more frantic consuming, into human beings with...

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Letty Cottin Pogrebin: Children's liberation is...

Letty Cottin Pogrebin: Children's liberation is...

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Source:...

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Katharine Whitehorn: I yield to...

Katharine Whitehorn: I yield to...

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work...

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Molly Haskell: Madness is always...

Molly Haskell: Madness is always...

Madness is always fascinating, for it reveals the ungluing we all secretly fear: the mind taking off from the body,...

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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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Christiane Collange: How many women...

Christiane Collange: How many women...

How many women are ready to admit that they are capable of changing the course of their existence by simply taking...

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Diana Vreeland: What do I...

Diana Vreeland: What do I...

What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks...

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Erma Bombeck: I was thirty-seven...

Erma Bombeck: I was thirty-seven...

I was thirty-seven when I went to work writing the column. I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social...

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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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Clementine Paddleford: [Chowder] breathes reassurance....

Clementine Paddleford: [Chowder] breathes reassurance....

[Chowder] breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.

Source: In Right for the...

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Jill Johnston: Bisexuality is not...

Jill Johnston: Bisexuality is not...

Bisexuality is not so much a copout as a fearful compromise.

Source: Lesbian...

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Anna Quindlen: It makes me...

Anna Quindlen: It makes me...

It makes me angry to think that . . . female sanitation workers will spend their days doing a job most of their...

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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 Thompson: Disillusion comes only...

Dorothy Thompson: Disillusion comes only...

Disillusion comes only to the illusioned. One cannot be disillusioned of what one never put faith...

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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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Brenda Ueland: So you see...

Brenda Ueland: So you see...

So you see the imagination needs moodling, - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and...

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