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Dorothy Parker: Take care of...

Dorothy Parker: Take care of...

Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.

Source:...

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Marilyn vos Savant: Being defeated is...

Marilyn vos Savant: Being defeated is...

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

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Elizabeth Hardwick: Letters are useful...

Elizabeth Hardwick: Letters are useful...

Letters are useful as a means of expressing the ideal self. . . . In letters we can reform without practice, beg...

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Elizabeth Fishel: Sisters define their...

Elizabeth Fishel: Sisters define their...

Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a...

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Lucille Ball: I think knowing...

Lucille Ball: I think knowing...

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good...

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Paula Gunn Allen: Breath is life,...

Paula Gunn Allen: Breath is life,...

Breath is life, and the intermingling of breaths is the purpose of good living. This is in essence the great principle...

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Tallulah Bankhead: I'm as pure...

Tallulah Bankhead: I'm as pure...

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

Source: The Observer, 'Sayings of the Week', 24...

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Cher: I won't be...

Cher: I won't be...

I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old...

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Jeane Kirkpatrick: Look, I don't...

Jeane Kirkpatrick: Look, I don't...

Look, I don't even agree with myself at times.

Source: On NBC TV, 3 Apr 1985.
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Jane Seymour: Beauty is a...

Jane Seymour: Beauty is a...

Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong...

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Annie Dillard: The body of...

Annie Dillard: The body of...

The body of literature, with its limits and edges, exists outside some people and inside others. Only after the writer...

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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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Lisa Alther: . . ....

Lisa Alther: . . ....

. . . inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

Source: In Words of...

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Shirley Jackson: [L]et my reader...

Shirley Jackson: [L]et my reader...

[L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he...

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Lisa Alther: That's the risk...

Lisa Alther: That's the risk...

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people...

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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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Edna O'Brien: . . ....

Edna O'Brien: . . ....

. . . in dreams begins responsibility.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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M F K Fisher: People ask me:...

M F K Fisher: People ask me:...

People ask me: Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power...

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Joyce Brothers: Trust your hunches....

Joyce Brothers: Trust your hunches....

Trust your hunches. . . . Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. Warning! Do...

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Eleanor H Porter: I can't see...

Eleanor H Porter: I can't see...

I can't see anythin, ter be glad about -- gettin, a pair of crutches when you wanted a doll! . . .
Goosey! Why,...

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