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Fran Lebowitz: Very few people...

Fran Lebowitz: Very few people...

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the...

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Dorothea Brande: Fiction supplies the...

Dorothea Brande: Fiction supplies the...

Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material...

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Virgilia Peterson: Not only are...

Virgilia Peterson: Not only are...

Not only are there as many conflicting truths as there are people to claim them; there are equally multitudinous and...

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Delphine de Girardin: To love the...

Delphine de Girardin: To love the...

To love the one who loves you,
To admire the one who admires you,
In a word, to be the idol of one's idol,
Is...

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Isabel Burton: Without any cant,...

Isabel Burton: Without any cant,...

Without any cant, does not Providence provide wonderfully for us?

Source: Arabia...

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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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Julie Burchill: A good part...

Julie Burchill: A good part...

A good part -- and definitely the most fun part -- of being a feminist is about frightening...

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Hortense Calisher: First publication is...

Hortense Calisher: First publication is...

First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.

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Katherine F Gerould: Funny how people...

Katherine F Gerould: Funny how people...

Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: Illusion is the...

Minna Thomas Antrim: Illusion is the...

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.

Source: In The...

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Peace Pilgrim: Pure love is...

Peace Pilgrim: Pure love is...

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

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Peace Pilgrim: Worry is a...

Peace Pilgrim: Worry is a...

Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Harriet Tubman: On my underground...

Harriet Tubman: On my underground...

On my underground railroad I never ran my train off the track. And I never lost a...

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Angela Davis: Radical simply means...

Angela Davis: Radical simply means...

Radical simply means grasping things at the root.

Source: Let Us All Rise Together,...

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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: In this society,...

Andrea Dworkin: In this society,...

In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and...

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Rebecca West: There is no...

Rebecca West: There is no...

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is...

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Anne Frank: Parents can only...

Anne Frank: Parents can only...

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies...

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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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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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