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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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Rebecca West: It is queer...

Rebecca West: It is queer...

It is queer how it is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into...

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Susan Sontag: Intelligence. . ....

Susan Sontag: Intelligence. . ....

Intelligence. . . is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Source: Against...

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Hannah More: Going to the...

Hannah More: Going to the...

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

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Germaine Greer: Perhaps catastrophe is...

Germaine Greer: Perhaps catastrophe is...

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get...

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Fran Lebowitz: I must take...

Fran Lebowitz: I must take...

I must take issue with the term a mere child, for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere...

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Fran Lebowitz: To me the...

Fran Lebowitz: To me the...

To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a...

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Helen Rowland: The hardest task...

Helen Rowland: The hardest task...

The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The most exhausting...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The most exhausting...

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.

Source:...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Only in growth,...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Only in growth,...

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

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Katharine Whitehorn: I yield to...

Katharine Whitehorn: I yield to...

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work...

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Katharine Whitehorn: I am firm....

Katharine Whitehorn: I am firm....

I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.

Source: In The Beacon Book...

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Andrea Dworkin: Wealth of any...

Andrea Dworkin: Wealth of any...

Wealth of any kind, is an expression of male sexual power.

Source: Pornography,...

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Helen Keller: Toleration is the...

Helen Keller: Toleration is the...

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself...

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Dorothy Parker: Every year, back...

Dorothy Parker: Every year, back...

Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with...

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George Eliot: An election is...

George Eliot: An election is...

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of...

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George Eliot: Our virtues are...

George Eliot: Our virtues are...

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound...

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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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Amy Tan: How can you...

Amy Tan: How can you...

How can you say luck and chance are the same thing? Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes...

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Shirley Jackson: The idea of...

Shirley Jackson: The idea of...

The idea of a series of items, following one another docilely, forms the only possible reasonable approach to life if...

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