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Elinor Glyn: Would you please...

Elinor Glyn: Would you please...

Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the...

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Janet Frame: Writing a novel...

Janet Frame: Writing a novel...

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and...

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Ursula Le Guin: He arrived at...

Ursula Le Guin: He arrived at...

He arrived at ideas the slow way, never skating over the clear, hard ice of logic, nor soaring on the slipstreams of...

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Toni Cade Bambara: The most effective...

Toni Cade Bambara: The most effective...

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations...

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Brigid Brophy: We Irish had...

Brigid Brophy: We Irish had...

We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip...

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George Eliot: For what we...

George Eliot: For what we...

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities -- a willing movement of...

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George Eliot: Prophecy is the...

George Eliot: Prophecy is the...

Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.

Source: Middlemarch, bk. 1, ch. 10,...

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George Eliot: Keep true, never...

George Eliot: Keep true, never...

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to...

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George Eliot: What a wretched...

George Eliot: What a wretched...

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind --the uglier we get in the eyes of...

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Jane Austen: Next to being...

Jane Austen: Next to being...

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

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Ruth Benedict: In a world...

Ruth Benedict: In a world...

In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with...

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Barbara De Angelis: Love and kindness...

Barbara De Angelis: Love and kindness...

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they...

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Sarah Siddons: . . ....

Sarah Siddons: . . ....

. . . I know, by sad experience, with what difficulty a mind, weakened by long and uninterrupted suffering, admits...

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Barbra Streisand: A human being...

Barbra Streisand: A human being...

A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you...

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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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Francesca Annis: I don't really...

Francesca Annis: I don't really...

I don't really have an image of myself. Now, is that true? Well, maybe I do and it's different, which is why I get...

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Carol Burnett: When someone who...

Carol Burnett: When someone who...

When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it' s always a big breakthrough or a radical...

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Sarah Caldwell: We must continuously...

Sarah Caldwell: We must continuously...

We must continuously discipline ourselves to I remember how it felt the first moment.

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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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Bette Midler: It's the heart...

Bette Midler: It's the heart...

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Source: In The...

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