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Anais Nin: We do not...

Anais Nin: We do not...

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow...

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Lydia M Child: That man's best...

Lydia M Child: That man's best...

That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that...

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Tama Janowitz: As a writer,...

Tama Janowitz: As a writer,...

As a writer, I don't think it's my responsibility to make a point. I just write and hope there's someone who'll like...

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Daisy Ashford: My life will...

Daisy Ashford: My life will...

My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

Source: The Young Visiters,...

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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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Francoise Sagan: One can never...

Francoise Sagan: One can never...

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

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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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Madeleine L'Engle: I love my...

Madeleine L'Engle: I love my...

I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as...

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Jennie Jerome Churchill: He has a...

Jennie Jerome Churchill: He has a...

He has a future and I have a past, so we should be all right.

Source: Referring to...

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Lillian Carter: Every time I...

Lillian Carter: Every time I...

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else...

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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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Joyce Carol Oates: Our enemy is...

Joyce Carol Oates: Our enemy is...

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Source:...

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George Eliot: In the vain...

George Eliot: In the vain...

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Source: Romola, bk....

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Mary McCarthy: Understanding is often...

Mary McCarthy: Understanding is often...

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot...

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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: Monroe, the consummate...

Andrea Dworkin: Monroe, the consummate...

Monroe, the consummate sexual doll, is empowered to act but afraid to act, perhaps because no amount of acting,...

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Mary Austin: When a woman...

Mary Austin: When a woman...

When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her...

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Dorothy Parker: All those writers...

Dorothy Parker: All those writers...

All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same...

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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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Janet Flanner: Women have invented...

Janet Flanner: Women have invented...

Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough...

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