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Whoopi Goldberg: An actress can...

Whoopi Goldberg: An actress can...

An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.

Source: Letter...

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Joyce A Myers: Teachers can change...

Joyce A Myers: Teachers can change...

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

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George Eliot: Any coward can...

George Eliot: Any coward can...

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of...

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Mary McCarthy: We all live...

Mary McCarthy: We all live...

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own...

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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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Harriet Beecher Stowe: When you get...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: When you get...

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a...

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Clara Barton: I have lived...

Clara Barton: I have lived...

I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been;...

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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: We need to...

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: We need to...

We need to teach the next generation of children from Day One that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's...

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Naomi Mitchison: It was all...

Naomi Mitchison: It was all...

It was all coming out from somewhere, and I just had the job of writing it down. I was, however, determined that the...

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Judith Rossner: It is easier...

Judith Rossner: It is easier...

It is easier to betray than to remain loyal. It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself...

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Lisa Alther: Dying was apparently...

Lisa Alther: Dying was apparently...

Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be...

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Lisa Alther: . . ....

Lisa Alther: . . ....

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

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Sylvia Plath: There must be...

Sylvia Plath: There must be...

There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

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Joyce Carol Oates: Where we come...

Joyce Carol Oates: Where we come...

Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us...

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Elizabeth Gaskell: The cloud never...

Elizabeth Gaskell: The cloud never...

The cloud never comes in the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

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Katherine Anne Porter: Our being is...

Katherine Anne Porter: Our being is...

Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do....

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Muriel Spark: It is impossible...

Muriel Spark: It is impossible...

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

Source: The...

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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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Jane Austen: For what do...

Jane Austen: For what do...

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

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Pearl Buck: Life without idealism...

Pearl Buck: Life without idealism...

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just have hope or starve to death.

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