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Katharine Whitehorn: I blame Rousseau,...

Katharine Whitehorn: I blame Rousseau,...

I blame Rousseau, myself. Man is born free, indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by a cord...

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Virgilia Peterson: I can understand...

Virgilia Peterson: I can understand...

I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot...

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Virgilia Peterson: In Reno [Nevada],...

Virgilia Peterson: In Reno [Nevada],...

In Reno [Nevada], there is always a bull market, never a bear market for the stocks and bonds of...

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Belva Lockwood: The glory of...

Belva Lockwood: The glory of...

The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.

Source: Quoted in: Mary...

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Belva Lockwood: If nations could...

Belva Lockwood: If nations could...

If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the...

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Shana Alexander: Ballet's image of...

Shana Alexander: Ballet's image of...

Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: To be loved...

Minna Thomas Antrim: To be loved...

To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.

Source:...

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Jane Smiley: Your sons weren't...

Jane Smiley: Your sons weren't...

Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.

Source: In...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: Anyone who has...

Barbara Ehrenreich: Anyone who has...

Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers...

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Florence King: There's no national...

Florence King: There's no national...

There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the...

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Andrea Dworkin: Sexism is the...

Andrea Dworkin: Sexism is the...

Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on...

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Andrea Dworkin: Wealth of any...

Andrea Dworkin: Wealth of any...

Wealth of any kind, is an expression of male sexual power.

Source: Pornography,...

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Muriel Rukeyser: The universe is...

Muriel Rukeyser: The universe is...

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Source: The Speed of Darkness.
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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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Lillian Hellman: It's an indulgence...

Lillian Hellman: It's an indulgence...

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of...

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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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Joan Didion: The fancy that...

Joan Didion: The fancy that...

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children,...

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Maria Callas: An opera begins...

Maria Callas: An opera begins...

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it...

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Leontyne Price: If you are...

Leontyne Price: If you are...

If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don't think down on it, or think it is something in your...

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Whitney Houston: Growing around [great...

Whitney Houston: Growing around [great...

Growing around [great musicians], you just can't help it. I identified with it immediately. It was something that was...

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