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Phyllis George: Crafts make us...

Phyllis George: Crafts make us...

Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create...

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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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Susan Sontag: I was not...

Susan Sontag: I was not...

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my...

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Susan Sontag: The only interesting...

Susan Sontag: The only interesting...

The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.

Source: In...

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Julie Andrews: Perseverance is failing...

Julie Andrews: Perseverance is failing...

Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.

Source: From...

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Bessie Smith: I ain't good-lookin',...

Bessie Smith: I ain't good-lookin',...

I ain't good-lookin', but I'm somebody's angel child.

Source: In Words of Love, by...

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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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Joan Baez: I've never had...

Joan Baez: I've never had...

I've never had a humble opinion in my life. If you're going to have one, why bother to be humble about...

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Nadia Boulanger: The art of...

Nadia Boulanger: The art of...

The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach...

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Mae West: When you get...

Mae West: When you get...

When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.

Source: The Observer,...

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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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Emily Dickinson: Nods from the...

Emily Dickinson: Nods from the...

Nods from the Gilded pointers --
Nods from the Seconds slim --
Decades of Arrogance between
The Dial life...

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Edith Sitwell: [T]he man of...

Edith Sitwell: [T]he man of...

[T]he man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are...

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Camille Paglia: The greatest honor...

Camille Paglia: The greatest honor...

The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with...

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Joan Baez: It seems to...

Joan Baez: It seems to...

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words...

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Emily Dickinson: This is my...

Emily Dickinson: This is my...

This is my letter to the World
That never wrote to Me--
The simple News that Nature told--
With tender...

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Audre Lorde: Who I am...

Audre Lorde: Who I am...

Who I am is what fulfills me and what fulfills the vision I have of a world.

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Gloria Swanson: I think all...

Gloria Swanson: I think all...

I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is...

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Katherine Dunham: I wasn't concerned...

Katherine Dunham: I wasn't concerned...

I wasn't concerned about the hardships, because I always felt I was doing what I had to do, what I wanted to do and...

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Karen Carpenter: I remember thinking...

Karen Carpenter: I remember thinking...

I remember thinking back then, 'Oh God, if we don't get a hit by the time I'm 20 I have to kill myself!' Well, we JUST...

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